History of netball

With the Silver Ferns world championship victory this week, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision was inspired to delve into the sport's history in New Zealand

The 1938 New Zealand women's basketball team (Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library)

Girls playing basketball with a basket, in Auckand c.1910. (Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Libaray)

A nine-a-side team c. 1910 (Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library)

Wellington Teachers College netball team – nine-a-side c.1924 (Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library)

Action in gym slips and stockings, Tech Old Girls vs St Mary’s Wellington, 1955

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