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The purpose of this paper is to investigate athlete selection procedures implemented by 25 provincial and national level coaches in New Zealand. One of the main focuses of the study was the degree to which workplace human resource management (HRM) selection practices were utilised, or could have been beneficial, for athlete selection. As many selection controversies have been caused by unclear or unspecified selection procedures, the study focused on discovering what processes coaches utilised when selecting athletes and, importantly, to what degree these processes were communicated to athletes.

The data were collected via semi‐structured interviews and interpreted using thematic analysis which enabled the extraction of the major recurring themes.

Although the majority of coaches supported the use of HRM selection processes, only six reported implementing HRM type practices. Overall, the study found that coaches on the whole did not fully utilise HRM selection practices. Furthermore, although there tended to be some degree of communication of these processes to athletes, this was not always done in a clear and precise way.

Core HRM practices, procedures, and terminology are seemingly rarely utilised in the athlete selection processes of amateur team sport. It is argued that future research should focus on determining how best to implement workplace HRM selection processes for team athlete selection.

Somewhat surprisingly, very little past research has investigated current athlete selection processes in relation to workplace HRM selection practices. The present research increases the understanding of current team athlete selection and provides discussion of the results in relation to HRM selection best practice.

February 5, 1969 Damages — Personal injuries — Assessment — Pension — Compulsory contribution — Police pension fund — Policeman disabled in accident — Assessment of lost earnings and pension rights — Whether pension deductible.

DEAR SIR, With reference to Mr. Andrews's interesting article in the December issue of Aircraft ENGINEERING, there appears to have been some error in the constant used in equation (18). The text gives a value of 60,000, but the correct value would appear to be 83,100 (=36,900/.444)

Further Correspondence On This Controversial Subject. Dear Sir, The purpose of this letter is to comment on M. Jaumotte's contribution to the September 1946 issue of AIRCRAFT ENGINEERING, arising from the earlier remarks of Mr. Mallinson and myself on rocket propulsive efficiencies.

THERE can be few instances of a monthly magazine running a serial, however popular, over twenty‐two issues. Even the earlier stories of Charles Dickens, long though they are by comparison with many modern novels, can hardly have taken so long as nearly two years to reach their finale in the pages of ‘House‐hold Words’ nor did, we suppose, an eager public avidly devour ‘The Yellowplush Papers’ over so long a period. When we received MR. CLEAVER'S letter which appears in this issue we looked back through the files of AIRCRAFT ENGINEERING to refresh our memory as to when his original article appeared. In the end it was not a case of recalling to mind a well‐remembered fact so much as of making a fresh incursion into history. For to our astonishment we discovered that it did not appear, as we had thought, during 1946 but dated back to so long ago as June, 1945. Like the best cheese or, to adopt a more pleasing simile, a vintage wine, it was some time in coming to maturity. Indeed the comparison with a feuilleton breaks down on closer examination because there was a gap of three months before the next instalment appeared, in September, 1945, in the form of a letter from MR. MALLINSON and it was not in fact until January of the following year that the subject was reviewed by a further contribution —this time from Holland—pointing out a slight mistake made by MR. MALLINSON; his frank acknowledgment of which we published two months later. After another lull, there appeared in September a letter from M. JAUMOTTE of the University of Brussels questioning the basis of the structure on which MR. CLEAVER'S theories, as on the whole confirmed by MR. MALLINSON, had been built up. This produced firmly worded protests from both these gentlemen, supported from a fresh quarter by a letter from one whose name was already well‐known as a contributor, MR. KRZYWOBLOCKI, a Pole who had found sanctuary in the University of Illinois. Owing to the exigencies of space we were unable to make room for these contributions till December, when between them they filled two pages. There we thought the matter would rest but there was still one more letter to come, this time from M. EESTERMANS of Paris; adding still another to the number of nations that have interested themselves in the controversy.

The Society of the White Cross of Geneva appears to have been founded with the object of organising on an international basis the attempts that are being made at the present time in civilised countries to bring under control, and if possible to stamp out, certain abuses, frauds, and other injurious factors more or less existent in modern civilised life. Among the subjects to be dealt with are mentioned “les empoisonnements alimentaires,” and adulteration generally, and the principal part of the business of the International Congress which met at Geneva last year and whose second sitting has just ended in Paris, appears to have related to food questions. The objects aimed at by the society are, no doubt, excellent, but they are hardly likely to be attained if the procedure followed in certain respects at the Geneva and Paris Congresses is adopted in the future. Many of the questions brought before these Congresses were of a highly technical nature, and, for this reason, it was not only very desirable, but absolutely necessary that the matters under discussion should have been dealt with, so far as time allowed, by a thoroughly representative international body composed exclusively of scientific and legal experts of recognised position in their respective countries—that is to say, if the conclusions arrived at were to be taken as representing a serious expression of authoritative opinion. It does not appear that the conclusions and resolutions of these Congresses were arrived at by meetings constituted on these lines, and it is probably for this reason that very little, if any, impression has been produced by the gatherings referred to. The initial mistake appears to have been the admission of a number of people who were obviously only interested in the commercial aspects of the subjects dealt with, and who were sufficiently numerous and persistent to influence the meetings in directions favourable to what were declared to be the “requirements” of trade.

Chief Project Engineer (Propellers).Dear Sir, In his interesting article, “Appreciation of Landing Problems”, in the July 1945 issue of Aircraft Engineering, Mr. G. W. Drury makes a number of observations on reversible pitch braking propellers, on which further comment seems desirable.

The following article is reprinted from The Business World.