EDUCATION OF PUBLIC

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20042, 14 September 1939, Page 7

EDUCATION OF PUBLIC

SCIENTIFIC BOXING CONFERENCE APPROVAL (Per Tress Association.) INVERCARGILL, this clay. The conference of delegates to the New Zealand Boxing Association was resumed to-day. Next year’s championships were allotted to Auckland. The election of officers resulted as follows: President, Mr. N. McLean, Auckland; vice-presidents, Messrs. Courtis, Invercargill, and Baillie, Greymouth; appeal committee, Messrs. Sanders, Meredith and Craig, Auckland; members of the council, Messrs. J. R. Simpson, E. Blundell, E. A. Dawson. H 11. Sterling. C. G. Bridge. E. C. Magee, Wellington, and A. G. Parker, Dannevirke.

A vote of thanks was passed to the retiring members of the council, Messrs. D. R. Hoggard and B. A. Guise.

Several additions to the rules were adopted. A Manawatu remit suggesting that expenses allowed to boxers should not exceed £lO unless special circumstances merited and a permit was obtained from the council, was lost, but an Otago remit bearing on the same question was adopted as follows: “The maximum amount to be paid to any boxer by way of expenses in respect to a particular contest should not exceed £ls. No expenses are to be paid to any boxer in respect to a contest held in the town in which he resides.”

“The public to-day is educated in slugging instead of boxing,” declared Mr G. H. Sceats, Gisborne, in urging the conference to take steps to inform the public of the principles of scientific -boxing and self-defence and of the bright side of boxing as a sport. He said that notice was -being taken by parents of -boys of recent articles in the press suggesting that the sport is dangerous. The -public was not informed of the efficient control of boxing in New Zealand. A recommendation- to give effect to the -proposal was adopted unanimously.