DOMINION LAWN TENNIS

Taranaki Daily News, 3 September 1929, Page 9

DOMINION LAWN TENNIS

ASSOCIATION’S ANNUAL MEETING.

By Telegraph.—Press Association,

Wellington, Last Night.

The annual meeting of the N"'” Zealand Lawn Tennis Association was held to-night, the president (Mr. J. C. Peacocke) occupying the chair. In moving the adoption of the report and balance-sheet the president said the number of tennis players in New Zealand was now 27,000, and on a population basis that, was the largest number of almost any country in the world.

The election of officers for the ensuing year resulted as follows: —Patron, His Excellency the Governor-General (Sir Charles Fergusson); president, Mr, M. Fenwicke (Hastings); vice-presidents,’ the presidents of the district associations; delegates to the Lawn Tennis Association, London, and to the International Lawn Tennis Federation, Mr. F. H. Woodward, M.8.E.; management committee, Messrs. M. E. Denniston, G. Gore, H. I. Graves, A. G. Henderson, N. A. Foden, S. A. Longuet, P. White-Par-sons; hon. auditor, Mr, F. O. Austin. Mr. Fenwicke, the new president, is an old player. He was New Zealand singles champion for 1889, 1892 and 1.893, and in 1886 wen the New Zealand championship doubles with P. C. Fenwicke, in 1889 with J F. Jardine and in 1891 with A. F. Logan. Mr. N; A. Foden gave notice of motion that in future years the balls to bo used at the New Zealand championship should be selected on the vote of the council. The management committee of the New Zealand Lawn Tennis Association is in communication with the . South African Association with the object of arranging for a visit of a South African team to New Zealand in 1931. It was also stated that it was expected the management committee would be able to arrange for a visit from an Australian team during the coming year.