Hockey trials still on

Press, 11 April 1979, Page 6

Hockey trials still on

Trials at Upper Hutt this week-end to select the New Zealand women’s hockey team will continue as planned in spite of the pilots' strike and a threatened strike by aircraft engineers. Mrs N. Lennie, of Christchurch, a member of the national selection panel, said last evening that the South Island trialists, including seven from Canterbury, had made alternative travel arrangements. The trials are on Saturday. Sunday and Mondav and the team will be named after the final trial game on Monday morning. The team will play Australia in one test in Hamilton on June 2, and travel to Vancouver in August for the

j international women s tourna- - ment. 1 Mrs Lennie said trialists from ? Gore and Dunedin would pro ba bl't drive to Picton and catch the t ferry to Wellington. It would •be a long, tiring trip which . could affect their play, but it » is the only method of travel j open to them 1 Meanwhile, there have been i three withdrawals from the * trials. Caro! Dtiske and Judv Dowling, both from Auckland and both former New Zealand . representatives, and Julanne Gfe ! ville from Hawke’s Bay. a Neu j Zealand universities represents / five last year are unavailable 1 Two replacement# have bee - named. They are Kar** ) Thomas (Auckland.) and Va * Horseman 'Hawke’s Bay).