New Zealand - Tennis - Highfield Club closing day - 1972 Tennis in New Zealand - One of the popular sports - First introduced to New Zealand in the 1870's - The modern tennis game was invented in England - The first New Zealand Tennis Championships were played at Farndon in Hawkes Bay in 1886 - Many Maori playing at a high standard by the 1890's. ----------------------- Image source: Tennis - Highfield Club closing day 04 August 1972 South Canterbury Museum Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License BY-NC-ND https://digitalnz.org/records/43082887/tennis-highfield-club-closing-day