HOCKEY AT PETONE.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 526, 5 June 1909, Page 3

HOCKEY AT PETONE.

'""Sir,—Kindly'allow-me to.' reply Fair Play." ' Hewas evidently mys bad; humour when he wrote. One wonders if Ins- defeat had anything to do with it. Besides, ho is not above making absolutely inaccurate statements. Let me take his oharge seriatim. 1. The short train journey is seven or cignt miles. But is there anything very formidable about that? Would he have his hockey in his backyard? Perhaps h'o is not. awaro- tnat quite a dozen matches.are played by town teams in'Petone and tho Hutt every Saturday, among them a couplo of ladies teams. Tho means of locomotion from-Petono station to tho ground- has been' definitely arranged. Assuming "Fair Play's" possession of eyes and tongue, he would know that, a", brake, specially reserved for hockey players from j town oily, .meets tho 2.20 tram from town, and conveys players right down to the sandhills, leaving a walk of but 'five or- s.ix minutes; That tho same brako .waits ;ttioro until the match is over, conveys/them .backto thestation in time to catch the .5.10 train/ bo that they are back in Wellington at 5.30. ■2. He can leave the-finding of the grounde tothe driver of the brake, although all he has to do is to> follow the beach. 3. Iβ 2.20 so very early then? And I suppose if he misses the ordinary boat for DayV Bay, no. other" boat, will' allow _him to arrive in time for his match. He is hard to pleasel ■ ' ' , •- ' ' , ■ 4. Ho refers to, No. 2 ground, and grossly exaggerates'its condition.- The ground was marked last- Saturday, i.e., all except the five-yards line,'which will be attended to in future. There is not an inch of gor'se on the ground, and "Fair Play," much as he would like to damage the ■ prospects of the Petone Club, ought to be above such misstatements. May I suggest, sir, that "Fair Play," who obviously belongs to tho lowest grade in tJio competitions, snould be allowed to play bis games on a bowling green, transported to his backyard, and carefully covered in.—l am, eto -, TRUTH. Potone, Juno 2. ■ "..;'. "NIORE HONOURED IN THE BREACH." Sir,—Under the above heading there vappeared in The Dominion of May. 25 on account of tho somewhat partial and' inadequate observance of Empire Day. At. first glance one would naturally ■ suppose ihat The Dominion disapproved of Empire Day celebrations.' But the more probable explanaI'tion is that the user of the quotation foil into a very.common mistake with regard to its meaning.; He, and many others, seem to think that the words "a custom more honoured in the breach than in the observance" mean "a custom loss observed than it should bo," But a reference to tho context shows that this is not : the ; meaning. Hamlet uses- the. words with .reference to a certain drinking custom'' of "his , * countrymen,., and clearly means by them "it' would be more' to our honour'if this custom : were not observed."—l am,-etc., : ''„',.' ~ ■-.- :■ . '.-■ ;■■■ ..OMEGA. ■ June 2:"" V" , "' ' :i "" y : '" : ''■■■: '■'".'•■■ ' -.;*-'/