SUPPLY OF TENNIS BALLS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 August 1943, Page 3

SUPPLY OF TENNIS BALLS

POSITION SERIOUS FOR CLUBS. VOLUNTEER LABOUR NEEDED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. Comment that the position regarding the supply of tennis balls was very serious for clubs, and that if the essentials for play could not be obtained, a lot of the clubs would become defunct, was made by the retiring president, Mr H. M. Boddington (Masterton) at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Lawn Tennis Association in Wellington yesterday. However, it was reported that a telegram had been received from the solo manufacturing firm that when its plant at Auckland had been re-erected it would start production if labour were available. The Auckland Association, it was stated, proposed to call for volunteers from non-directable labour to undertake the full production. Mr Boddington said that without tennis balls, clubs would go out of existence, specially those with grass courts, which involved heavier maintenance than hard courts. Fivesixths of the North Island play was on grass courts. It was decided to ask the Auckland association to endeavour to make suitable arrangements with the manpower officer there and if possible to organise volunteer labour from tennis players and others for the manufacture of the balls. The management committee was given power to act in any further representations necessary.