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Kōrero: Basketball

First basketball game

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First basketball game

This press report of the first basketball game played in New Zealand, at Wellington's YMCA gymnasium on 12 May 1908, appeared in the Dominion the following day.

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National Library of New Zealand, Papers Past

Reference: Dominion, 13 May 1908, p. 2

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John Saker, Basketball – Origins and growth, 1908 to 1950s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/document/39883/first-basketball-game (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā John Saker, i tāngia i te 3 December 2012, updated 1 October 2015.