Exporters of Top Quality Sports Gear

In the world of sport, top performance demands the use of to quality sporting equipment.

Australia’s sportsmen rely on equipment made in their own countn Tennis champions use Australian-made racquets and balls. Golfers ha\ won many of the world’s major golf contests with locally-manufactur*' clubs and golf balls. Australia’s Test cricketers use nothing else but Am tralian equipment—as do many cricketers in other Commonwealth countrie In much of the sporting equipment produced by Australia, the fii leathers used contribute significantly to the overall quality. Kangaroo hi< combines lightness and toughness with extraordinary pliability, and particularly suitable for running-shoes or spikes, soccer and rugby foo: balls, and boxing gloves.

Quality at a reasonable cost is the reason why Australian spiprtii: goods are so popular in many countries for bowls, squash and badmintOD baseball and softball, hockey, archery and table-tennis, to mention som of the range of goods exported.

Greatest demand is for bowls, which is extremely popular in Am tralia and many Pacific Islands. The export of bowls in 1959-60 eamn Australia about £60,000.

Among non-competitive sports, fishing is popular in Australia, ai, first-rate equipment is available. Skin-diving apparatus is also mm locally: spearguns, rubber suits, even underwater camera casings, aqut lungs. i The popularity of the outboard-motor boats in the past few years hr resulted in the local designing and building of fast, light and stable fibn glass hulls and water-skis.