BADMINTON
.SHORTAGE OF SHUTTLES
The position threatening New Zealand badminton in the shortage of shuttlecocks for the game was fully considered at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Badminton Federation at Wellington, on Saturday. Owing to surplus stocks of the 1937 season, the importations in 1938 were much below average and the Government basing of requirements on 1938 imports, plus a subsequent cut;of-50. per.-cent* has seriously embarrassed the game. No action was taken by the meeting except to affirm the action of the executive in communicating to the Minister of Internal Affairs (the Hon. W. E. Parry) the likelihood of the game being stopped for want of shuttles and its request that in that event the Government refusal to grant a licence should be reconsidered. One or two speakers suggested that the time had come now for the position to be fully explained to the Government. It was clear, they said, that some clubs were not honouring the federation's request for a general conservation •of shuttles and that the block buying in which clubs in various districts had indulged was making the prospect of play fof the usual length of time by other clubs quite impossible.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 112, 13 May 1940, Page 13
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