BASKETBALL REFEREES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26242, 28 August 1946, Page 3

BASKETBALL REFEREES

NEW ZEALAND ASSOCIATION OFFICE-BEARERS ELECTED (P.A.) TAURANGA, Aug. 27. At a meeting of the New. Zealand Basketball Referees’ Association in Tauranga it was decided that local examinations be recognised by all centres so that in the event of a referee transferring to another association she would be eligible for the New Zealand theoretical examination. The election of office-bearers resulted as follows: —President, Miss S. E. Foster (Dunedin); vice-presidents, Miss M. E. Armstrong (Wellington), Mrs Mclnnes (Wellington), Miss D. Crumpton (Southland) and Mrs C. Irney (Canterbury); secretary-treasurer, Mrs W. R. Mayhew (Dunedin); honorary auditor, Miss M. Taverner (Dunedin); delegates to the New Zealand Council. Mrs Mclnnes and Miss Foster; theoretical examiner, Miss Foster; practical examiners—North Island, Mrs H. D Muir (Wellington), Mrs D. Knuckey (Eltham) and Miss A. Naylor (Tauranga) ; South Island—Miss Foster, Miss Cairney and Mr Malcolmson (Geraldine).

The New Zealand Council of the Basketball Association at its annual meeting to-day decided that the 1947 tournament be held at Nelson. The meeting also agreed to extend an invitation to the Australian Basketball Association to send an Australian representative team to New Zealand next year, arrangements for the tour to be left in the hands of the New Zealand executive, and in the meantime the executive will ascertain from associations to what extent they are prepared to help financially, N