BIG POLO TOURNEYS

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30958, 14 January 1966, Page 11

BIG POLO TOURNEYS

Canterbury To Get Four

The South Island Polo Association has announced a programme of four major polo tournaments, to be held in Christchurch and other Canterbury centres in the next three months. The tournament will be held on January 30. at Ashburton: on February 13, at Rangiora: on March 12 and 13. possibly at Addington Raceway: and on April 9 and 10. at Amuri.

The association is negotiating with Addington Trotting Course, Ltd. to hold the Christchurch tournament at Addington, which has the best area and spectator facilities in Christchurch. The two-day event will include matches for the Gould and Rhodes Cups. There are five clubs affiliated to the association —Ashburton, Ashley, Amuri. Geraldine and Cheviot. Ashley and Amuri each have two teams. The Geraldine club was formed only recently. The association announced that four teams would provide polo display matches at the Horse Society's “Horse of the Year” show at Waimate on F ebruary 27. The teams would be drawn from the Amuri, Ashburton. Ashley and Geraldine clubs. Golf Team For Test Country districts are well represented in the New Zealand junior women's golf team to play against New South Wales in singles and foursomes at Shirley on Saturday. The team is: Misses A. August (Hawke's Bay). M. Ensor (Cheviot), B. McTaggart (Wellington) and H. Mowat (Marton): reserve, D. Fitzger- 1 aid (Te Arawa). All the players had a round i at Amberley yesterday and will play practice rounds for the international today. Gliding Task Unfinished (N.Z. Press Association) DUNEDIN. None of the 16 entries in the “out and return” event at the national gliding championships, completed the task yesterday because conditions prohibited any long-distance flying- ... I The pilots’ task was to glide| from Omarama to Lake Tekapo and back, a distance of about 81 miles.

P. Higginbothem. of Wellington, was the winner with a flight which landed him four miles south-west of Simons Pass.