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The Taxes Rangers (2nd of 3)

The Taxes Rangers

From the 1930s local basketball tournaments attracted many business house teams. This game was played in Wellington sometime in the 1950s and featured a team from the Tax Department, dubbed the Taxes Rangers – a play on the name of the famous law enforcement agency, the Texas Rangers.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, National Publicity Studios Collection
Reference: 1/2-034542-F (AAQT 6539/A14,366)

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John Saker, 'Basketball - Origins and growth, 1908 to 1950s', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/39887/the-taxes-rangers (accessed 16 April 2024)

Story by John Saker, published 5 Sep 2013, updated 1 Oct 2015