BASKETBALL

Evening Star, Issue 23352, 23 August 1939, Page 4

BASKETBALL

NEW ZEALAND ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING OF DELEGATES The annual meeting of the New Zealand Basketball Association was opened, at Invercargill yesterday by Miss Hallamore, president of the Southland Basketball Association. The adoption of the annual report for 1939 was moved by Mrs H. D. Muir, president of the New Zealand Basketball Association. The remits considered dealt first with points brought forward by the New Zealand Basketball Referees’ Association. In regard to travelling expenses for practical examiners, the decision arrived at was that in future basketball associations wbuld be levied on a sliding scale up to a total amount of £4O, the New Zealand Association paying any further amount required. Provision was also made for the practical examinations for New Zealand referees to be held during the New Zealand tournament in future. When tournaments are held in the North Island, preference will bo given to North Island referees, and this applies similarly to South Island referees. The closing date for the nomination of referees for the 1940 tournament was given as September 30, 1939. It was decided to hold a meeting of the New Zealand Council during Easter, 1940, and to invite the N.Z.B.R.A. Council to be present at the meeting. VISIT OF ENGLISH AND AUSTRALIAN TEAMS The English Basketball Council will not be able to send a representative team to New Zealand for the 1940 tournament at Wellington next Easter, but hopes that a team of English visitors will be able to take part. Those remarks were made at a meeting at Invercargill last night of the Council of the New Zealand Basketball Association by the president, who said that an Australian representative team would compete at the tournament. It was decided that a section for secondary school teams bo provided at the 1940 tournament. Mrs Muir was re-elected president, and Mrs R. M, Smith secretary-trea-surer. ________