Basketball.

The Basketabll Club looks forward eagerly to the new season which opens on May 9th. Last season, the senior A team opened their season wiht five consecutive wins, the first of which was against Kia ora, the holders of the championship. This year, with the team in even better form, we hope to do equally wellat the start and to continue our successes into the second round. Commencing practices in February, as we do, it is hard for the teams not to become stale about half-way through the season. However, our coach is excellent and we have high hopes.

The Senior A team will not be greatly different from last season. Isobel Morice, always a reliable forward, will most probably not be playing for us and she will be missed greatly.

The second team will be inthe Senior B grade. Several new players have yet to be tried and the committee hopes for a very strong B team this year.

Practices this year will probably be held in the Varsity gymn. The gymn is small and dark and the floor is very bad. However, the committee feels that if practices are on the spot, more girls will attend and the advantages of full practices will undobtedly outweigh the disadvantages of our V.U.C. gymn.

On the Friday following Easter the Basketball Club held its annual meeting. The committee its annual meeting. The committee is entirely new and consists of:—Captain, Miss Stella Phillips; Vice-Captain, Miss Marjorie Gibbons; Secretary-Treasurer, Miss ruth Singleton; Fresher Member, Miss Mirabel Morton. With a keen and energetic new committee, an excellent coach, a good combination, and full practices, who knows to what heights V.U.C. Basketball Club may rise.