Basketball in Australia.
Basketball does not enjoy the same popularity in Australia as it does in New Zealand, according to Mrs Bain Challis, who has returned to Invercargill from a trip to Australia with the New Zealand basketball team. This could possibly be attributed to the fact that the Australian game was dull and rough in comparison with the spectacular type of game of New Zealand basketball players, she stated. In Australia, cricket and swimming attracted large numbers of girls. New Ambulance Bells. An effective means of facilitating the passage of ambulances through traffic in times of urgency has been adopted with the fitting of loud and resonant electric bells to the vehicles under the control of the Auckland centre of the St John Ambulance Association. To serve as a pattern, three of the bells employed in the ambulance fleet operated by the London County Council were imported by the secretary-manager of the centre, Mr S. E. Langstone, and these have been installed on machines in Auckland. When bells of a similar type are cast in New Zealand, the other ambulances will be similarly equipped.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 September 1938, Page 4
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185Basketball in Australia. Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 September 1938, Page 4
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