A call has been made to copy an Australian scheme and provide vouchers to get children to play sport. NZ Amateur Sport Association chairman Gordon Noble-Campbell said sport fees were getting expensive and more families were choosing not to play sport because of cost. Australian states used a voucher system where families could use vouchers provided by state governments to pay for their children’s sporting fees. "Clubs would get the money from the voucher and the families would get their children playing sport." Sport fees had crept up and playing sport was becoming expensive, Noble-Campbell said.

Source: Otago Daily Times March 11, 2021 15:33 UTC