BOXING CONFERENCE

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20908, 13 September 1939, Page 11

BOXING CONFERENCE

1940 TITLE CONTESTS SCHEDULED FOR AUCKLAND LIMITATION OP EXPENSES (By reiegrapn.—Pr«ss Association) INVERCARGILL, Wednesday The boxing conference resumed today, when the next year's championships were allotted to Auckland. The election of officers resulted: —■ President. Mr N. McLean Auckland,; vice-presidents, Messrs Courtis (Invercargill; and Baillic (Greymouth j ; appeal committee, Messrs Sanders, Meredith and Crai-r Auckland / ; members of council, Messrs J. R. Simpson, E. Blundell, E. A. Dawson, H. H. Sterling, C. G. Bridge, E. C. Magee (Wellington) and A. G. Parker (Dannevirke). A vote of thanks was carried to the following retiring members of the council: Messrs D. R. Hoggard and B. A. Guise. Several additions to the rules were adopted. A Manawatu remit, concerning expenses allowed to boxers, said they should not exceed £lO unless special circumstances merit and a permit is obtained from the council, was lost, but an Otago remit, bearing on the same question, was adopted, as follows: “The maximum amount paid to any boxer in the way of expenses in respect to a particular contest should not exceed £ls, and no expenses shall be paid to any boxer in respect of a contest held In the town in which he resides.” Education Needed The public today are educated in slugging instead of boxing, declared Mr G. H. Sceats, of 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 notice was being taken by parents of boys in recent articles in the press that the sport was dangerous. The public were not informed of the efficient control of boxing in New Zealand. —A recommendation to give effect to the proposal was adopted unanimously.