Kōrero: Rural recreation

Women basketballers

Women basketballers

Women’s basketball, or netball as it was later called, became popular from the 1940s in rural areas. This team from Kaponga won the South Taranaki first-grade championship in 1943. They played 13 games and won them all.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, S. T. Allen Collection
Reference: 1/2-125770; F
Photograph by Murray Thompson

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Te tuhi tohutoro mō tēnei whārangi:

Jock Phillips, 'Rural recreation - Small-town sports, 1890–1960', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/photograph/17685/women-basketballers (accessed 29 March 2024)

He kōrero nā Jock Phillips, i tāngia i te 24 Nov 2008