HOCKEY

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 738, 10 February 1910, Page 6

HOCKEY

"•■■; ■-,- THE.' ENGLISH ; VISIT./ ; .: (By . TelcgraDh—Press.' Association.) , : ..'.,..;'■ ~.':■' . ; ". Chris'tch.urch, February 9/ At , - a , - meeting of the. , New Zealand -Hockey Association it ..was reported ;in, regard to the proposed ! tour of'the : 'Eng-' lish .team that, replies, had beeiy received from affiliated associations who' guaranteed a total of in favour of the tbnr,. whilst, in respect to threeother associations,! the .replies were 1 problematical; the amount of' their ■' guarantees being .£150.'

..The , chairman (Mr. E. Nordon)' stated that .£509 was ample to finance the. tour. In the epurse of '. lengthy . remarks regarding the,'attitude of.'the/.Canterbury, Association, which holds ■ that the'. time is opportune for, the visit, the chairman stated that the associations offered;more or. loss of. an insult to the Management ■'Committee of. the. New, Zealand. Association jit the annual'meeting, when.itdecided to -take the preliminaryisteps inconnection; with 'the tour.- The Center--bury, delegates -voted in favour., of .the motion, and the people ,who constituted' the executive of the Canterbury,,Asso-' ciation' were ■ stultifying themselves by' their present, attitude. As..to' the state-, ment that the English team could not tench the local men much it seemed to him .altogether t00... ridiculous for., consideration. ....■..••'•■

, It was decided to.'.communicate, with Mr. Collins (secretary- of , the. English Association) to ascertain how : matters .were .progressing': at his end, and to ' impress •on him the necessity for sending their strongest 1 possible team to New Zealand."