Pulse pair meet fans

Two members of the Pulse ANZ championship netball squad will be in Wairarapa on Saturday.

Camilla Lees and Victoria Smith will spend about 30 minutes at the Kuranui College courts in Greytown and an hour at the Colombo Road courts in Masterton and they will be available to sign Pulse posters and autographs in what is very much a public relations exercise.

Netball Wairarapa president Sandy Biel said having the opportunity to "meet and greet" high-profile personalities such as Lees and Smith was huge for players, especially those in the junior grades.

"They are the role models for the younger ones, they give them something to aspire to," she said.

For Biel, just having interclub play on Saturday will be a bonus as twice already this season all matches have been postponed because of wintry weather, the most recent last Saturday.

Then the 9am round did get under way but with players suffering from the temperature, which fell to 4C, the decision was made to abandon the games at the end of the first quarter.

"Some of the girls had so little movement in their hands because of the cold they couldn't catch the ball, there was a real threat of hypothermia becoming a problem and we weren't prepared to risk that," Biel said.

The loss of the two days play now means the season will stretch from late August into early September and Biel warns if further rounds had to be postponed there was a strong likelihood of double headers being played, some of them maybe even indoors.

"We were finishing earlier than usual anyway so we have room to go for a further two weeks but we wouldn't want to stretch things further than that," she said.