ttnz chronicle contents 1959

*Year*	Page contents (All Years include Top Men's & Women's Titleholders, Rankings and Administrative People)

1934-1958

1959	First NZ Women's Team at Worlds How Not to Enter A World Championship Thick Sponge Bats Outlawed Bob Jackson's Long Reign Ends	Juniors Surprise Top Women's Seed Teams Format at NZ Champs Changes 25th Jubilee Fluorescent Lighting Accepted	Coaching Schools Introduced TT Leads Way with Sunday Sport Star Players Visit East Coast

1960	Japanese World Champs Visit NZ Hutt Valley Does Homework on Pen-Grip Small Town NZ Runs Nationals Northland's Rise to Power	Australia Visits Developments in Central Nth Isl Eventful Raffle Year Fee Increase Debate at AGM	Officer Insulted New Coaching Schools Leader NZ to Attend 1961 Worlds

1961	TT Makes World Headlines Miss K Leads the Way Change to Pen-Grip, Urges Captain Loop Drive Imported Trivial Dispute Bans Top Player	NZ Champs Report Semaphore Board Experiment Fails Auckland Finally Toppled Rotorua Hosts North Island Champs	Future Chairman Draws a Crowd Membership Dropping Table Tennis on TV Ohakune Finds a TT Home

1962	Two-Man NZ Team to Australia Bergmann Offer Too Expensive Year of Three-in-Rows Dedicated Player Threatens at Nationals	Ballinger Cup for NZ Junior of Year Light Colours Out, Expedite In Long & Short Debates at AGM Norm Ballinger Steps Down	Five New Life Members Table Tennis OE for NZ Group New Age-Group Added to NZ Open

1963	"Secret" Trip to World Champs Seven Cross Tasman for Australian Open Alan Tomlinson Plays Internationally Bangs & Whimpers at NZ Champs "Unpleasant" Debate at AGM	Otago Assn Buys Own Building Waikato Splits into Three Whangarei North Islands Too Far Away South Islander Wins Player of Year Crowd Flocks to Mercantile Tourn. in Poverty Bay	Pacific Games Held in Suva Top NZ Men in Golden Games Masterton TV Coverage Building Up Competitor Dies Playing TT

1964	Australia Tours NZ Where are NZ's Under 19 & 20 Internationals Post Section format ends for NZ teams tourn	NZ TT Stars at New Rotorua Multi Sports Stadium Coaching Schools for Sth Islanders	NI Champs at New Plymouth World Endurance Ping-Pongathons

1965	Australian Star Plays in NZ Champs Grades & Promotion/Relegation Introduced Three Aucklanders Play in Australian Open National Development Programmes	Round Robin Tournaments Tommy Williams Retires Wild Weather South Island Champs	BIll Mullins Sets Record Service on NZTTA North Island Entry Tests Facilities Junior Rankings Introduced

1966	First Ever Series Win Over Australia NZ off to the World Championships Sponsored Junior Team Tounament Barna Cup Awards now for Men & Women	South Islander wins NZ Open Singles University Teams Tour Australia Round Robin Tourn. Recorded for TV Poverty Bay Hosts First North Islands	Inter-Assn Teams Contests now 11 Matches Waitemata Association Affiliates National Raffle

1967	NZ Attends Its Third World Champs Ten Shillings a day!! England & NZ Play Five Tests	Development Ideas of Assns Service Rule Change Maori Champs in Poverty Bay	University Tournament National Boys Brigade Tournament

1968	South East Asia Championships Bryan Foster Wins Treble Canterbury Coach Fact Finding Overseas Australian Star returns to Coach in NZ	Northland Teams Reign Supreme Neti Traill Makes Impressive Comeback Australian Universities Visit Paddy O"Driscoll Dies	Raffle - Bigger Profit Death of Two Juniors New Umpires Test Papers Issued

1969	Mixed Australian Team Visits Two of the Best From the Past Teenagers Meet in NZ Open Singles Final	Viktor Barna Returns Memorable NZ Champs for Tomlinson Record Entries at Nationals	Three From One Family in Top 10 Married Couple Attain Life membership

1970	Swedish Spectacular Records Tumble at NZ Champs New Stars Emerge NZ Director of Coaching Appointed	Auckland TT Stadium Built Great NI Champs John Stewart Retires Kapiti Assn Gains Full Membership	Richard Bergmann Dies Paciic Island Teams Visit Northern Districts R/R Launched

1971	Ping Pong Diplomacy Big Lead-up to Nagoya World Champs Hong Kong Stars Tour Under 18's Dominate NZ Champs	South Island beats "New Zealand" Selectors get it Right with James Morris China Accepts Invitation to Tour NZ Broadcaster Sponsors Televised Tourn.	Famous Families Foremost at Sth Island Junior Players Train in Korea Finest Hour for Jubilee Organiser Youngster Dominates Maori Champs

1972	China TT Visits NZ - History made. Ramon La Varis Test Matches v China	More TT on TV Canterbury Triumphs in NZ Teams Senior Training Squads Introduced	Asian Federation Champs Team for 1973 Worlds Umpires Association Formed

1973	Japan Back in NZ Commonwealth & World Champs National Director of Coaching	NZ Clubs Teams Champs Revived Youth Dominates NZ Champs Player Rating System	South Island Stars Central Waikato Disaffiliates New Fashions & Problems

1974	NZ Women in Asia Czechoslovakia Visits NZ 1934 Final Re-enacted at NZ Champs NZ Tours China	K Wilkinson's 25 Years as Secretary Australian Champ in NZ Auckland Assn Celebrates 50 Yrs Fee Structure Change	Surprise Selection World Champs Training in Japan for Juniors NZ Rep on NZTTA Executive

1975	Silver Medal at Commonwealths Boisterous & Eventful World Champs Professional Coach Tours NZ French Invasion at NZ Champs	French Exhibition Bryan Foster's Swansong Thirty Chinese Coaches help NZ Top Two Australian Women Tour NZ	James Morris Invited to Japan Afffiliation Fees Revisited Opening Hamilton Stadium

1976	NZer in Australian Open Doubles Final Tour Plans Tumble James Morris: New National Champ Women's Exhibition Singles Added to TV Tourn.	Nationwide TT Week Introduced Ruling Bars Top NZer from NZ Teams Champs Auckland Raises Funds For Top Junior Publicity Man Hikes to Get Reports Out	Another Newcomer to NZ Team to Worlds Votes Counted at AGM Associations Queue to Play Northland Juniors A Marathon Year

1977	Africans Stay Away From Champs NZ Holds Own at Worlds East & West Still Don't Meet NZ Does Well at Commonwealths NZs Build-up Spans Five Countries International Tour - Australia Replaces Hungary	$10,000 TV Tournament in Australia Snubbed Australian at NZ Champs Anne Stonestreet Ends International Career Celebrities in Ping-Pongathon Multi-Sport Coaching Seminar Sponsor Backs School Teams Final	Tragic Death of Popular Visitor to NZ AGM Continues to Tinker With NZ Champs New Star Emerges aged 13 TT Becomes Olympic Sport TT Admin Becomes Professional

1978	New International Event - Oceania Champs Selection Furore New Events for Juniors Brother & Sister Win NZ Singles Titles	First Paid Coach Four Chinese Coaches Visit NZ Alan Tomlinson Sets Ranking Record Japanese Visit to Auckland Open	National Schools Final Sponsorship of National Clubs Teams Tourney Ends Banner Headlines in Fiji for Northland Visit Two Associations in Recess

1979	North Korea Hosts Worlds English Coach Visits NZ Open Junior Entry Rockets Battle of the Champs	NSW Players Visit NZ Teams on Tour Drama at South Island Champs Tomlinson & Lassen Make Mark in NI Doubles	Sponsored Exhibitions Table Tennis Week Stutters to Halt Two Keiths Attend International Umpires' Seminar

1980	Chinese Welcomed Back to NZ TV Exhibition Trumps Test Match Under 16's Wreak Havoc at NZ Champs Unique Auckland Team	Barry Griffiths: Player of Year Juniors in Australia Peter Hirst Returns Shift in Men's Ranking List	Auckland Busy Organising Tours Off and On Again World Events Death of Alan McCallum NZ's First International Umpires Qualify

1981	NZ's "Olympics" World Champs Par for the Course (Nearly) All-Morris NZ Championships Junior-of-all-trades Wins Award Treble Junior Treble at North Islands	One Stadium Opens, Another Burns Peter Hirst Legacy: Coaching Manual Published International Training for Barry Griffiths No Success at Australian Open	Juniors Tackle Australia: Plenty of Success Auckland Host NSW Women Umpiring Awards for Juniors Introduced Queen's Honour for TT Administrator

1982	Three Oceania Titles Retained Commonwealth Championships NZ Championships - Griffiths/Jackson Era Begins Alf Harding Retires From NZTTA Chair	Oceania World Cup Qualifier New North Island Champion Another English Coach New Dates for Coaching Schools	Sudden Death of Top Umpire Tough Challenge for Juniors in Australia Popular Tournament in New Plymouth Barry Wynks, QSM

1983	Peter Jackson's First World Championships Women Start Well at Commonwealths Major Historical Undertaking Australia & Oceania Champ now NZ Champ End of Promotion/Relegation Contests	National Tournament Management Goes Hi-Tech South Island Titles - Replay of 73 Coaching Activity Intensifies North Island Champs: Lee/Morris Era Tails Off Extraordinary Stamina by Veteran	Entry of TT into Olympics Scheduled for 1988 Boys Do Well in Australia TT Leads Other Sports in Junior Awards NZTTA Pioneer Dies Bats Go Multi-Coloured

1984-2008