BOXING ASSOCIATION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 256, 28 September 1932, Page 2

BOXING ASSOCIATION.

OPENING OF CONFERENCE. Per Press Association. NEW PLYMOUTH, Sept. 28. The annual meeting of the New Zealand Boxing Association was held this morning, the president, Mr J. Garcia (Taranaki) presiding over thirty delegates. A civic reception was given the visitors by the Mayor. In liis annual review the president remarked on the decline in professional boxing owing to the depression. A Southland remit, that Australian and New Zealand championships be fostered and that funds which had been set aside for the Olympic Games be devoted to that purpose, was amended after a discussion to read: “That an endeavour be made to reintroduce contests between New Zealand and Australian champions. As amended, the remit was carried. Consideration of whether New Zealand boxers should be sent to the Games was deferred for twelve months. A remit to include a junior welterweight class was lost. A Whangarei proposal to give additional assistance to smaller associations instead of sending teams to the Olympic Games also was lost. It was suggested that the smaller associations could do a great deal more for themselves. The conference rejected a proposal for an examination of referees and judges taking part in any association bouts. A Wellington remit that clause 3 of rule 40, providing for registration and payment of registration fees by amateurs, be deleted, and that the carrying of such a resolution be retrospective in respect of any amateur who may not for any reason have been able to pay the registration fee, was carried. The next championships -were allotted to Marlborough.