SPORTS FIXTURES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 December 1939, Page 9

SPORTS FIXTURES

CO-ORDINATION PLANS. AVOIDANCE OF CLASHING. The Mayor of Napier was recently reported as stating that too many sports bodies in his area were fixing dates and then finding that they wore clashing with the fixtures of other organisations. What was needed was some co;ordination of effort. An interesting development in this connection, and one which could well be commended to the attention of other provinces, is the recent formation of a Southland Provincial Council of Sport. The necessary approaches and preliminary organisation were carried out by the Area Recreation Officer of the Physical Welfare and Recreation Branch. Already the council has manifested its presence in a no uncertain way. Not merely has it avoided the clashing of dates, but it lias'acted as a medium for the arrangement of joint Centennial sports fixtures. It has also taken in hand a scheme for the publication of lists of defaulters in subscriptions, a measure which has been found very necessary in other centres. It is not, of course, by any means the first demonstration of co-ordina-tion among sports bodies. The Pioneer Sports Club in Christchurch, to which are affiliated nearly all the Canterbury sporting bodies and which maintains its own club rooms, is a splendid example of what can be achieved. The Physical Welfare and Recreation Branch intends to sponsor similar developments in other areas, wherever practicable.