HOCKEY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 787, 9 April 1910, Page 10

HOCKEY.

.The annual meeting of;-the HockeyReferees', Association Will be held on Friday, April 15,' at Dr. Morpeth's rooms, Willis Street, opposite the Y.M.G.A. As hockey in Wellington during this season will be a prominent sport, and in view of the fact that all challenge. matches must be played here, it is desirous that plenty of good referees should be available. Important matters are to be' discussed at the annual meeting: '.-■■• MANAWATU ASSOCIATION. (By Telccraph.—Press Association.* Palmerston North, April 8. The.Manawatu Hdckey Association at its annual meeting to-night received from the New Zealand Association ah offer of a match with tho English team for a guarantee of £75, but decided that "there was no chance of recouping from the gates, and so declined.

Mrs. Sarah Ann Lees, the one lady councillor of Oldham, has been admitted the first-"freeman" of the borough in recognition of her large benefactions to local institutions. Twelve acres of land, which have been added to Ruskin Park, Camberwell, by the London County Council, at a cost of £23,685 (of which £8000 was raised locally), were opened as public playing fields by Mr. George Alexander, chairman of the Parks Committee, who said Ruskin would have been delighted to know that the park and playing fields had been preserved for the people. He had asked one of Ruskin's relatives what his favourite game was, and she replied, "Battledore and shuttlecock." Blind men in Japan, instead of being led by a child or dog with a string, carry a whistle which they blow, and those who hear it leave the pathway free before their feeU