N.Z. Amateur Boxing Championships

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 234, 15 September 1934, Page 9

N.Z. Amateur Boxing Championships

Zealand, and the fixture was a great success. Tho outstanding performer appears to have been a lightweight, Lindsay Robertson, who a week later attended the Manawatu championships and secured the championship, so bringing to Hawke’s Bay its first “foreign” championship. The New Zealand Boxin' Council had now adopted a system of centre control, and the Hawke’s Bay Association was given control of the province with headquarters at Hastings. This would account for the fact then that on September 16 application was made by Mr H. H. McDougal, of Napier, for the establishment of a club at Napier. This was approved, as was a similar application made later for a Waipukurau Boxing Club at Waipawa. Both were given official recognition by the New Zealand council at its annual meeting in 1910, but it was not until August 25, 1910. that the fUapier club held its first tournament, and April 26, 1911, the Waipukurau Club commenced action.

The appointment of a secretary to the H.B. A.B.A. appears to have given rise to a little difficulty. Mr Jaeger resigned office and Mr J. C. J. Johnson appears to have, taken his place, but only for a very brief period, as the old records show that for the commencement of the annual meeting ; .u 1911 there was no secretary, Mr J. A. Miller being asked to act pro tern. The meeting later appointed Mr A. Rosenberg as secretary, and this evidently nut an end to the controversy, for Mr Rosenberg remained in office until 1925, when Air-J. Stickland, the present secretary of the association, was ele*ted. To follow the career of the association further would occupy too much space. The fortunes of the organisation fluetiia-’,] between success and failure; it had its active and its moribund periods, but it is to-day keeping tho old flag flying gallantly in the breeze of public fa v our.