REPOROA HOCKEY DEFAULT

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 320, 6 September 1932, Page 6

REPOROA HOCKEY DEFAULT

W. J.

DUNBAR.

(TC' tbe Erlitor). , Sir, — Just to let you ard. your liockey critic know why Reporoa de- \ faulted to ShanirocK cn Saturday. This is at tkc recr.ev* oi* the utrar.Lers of the tcam. Reporoa playecl three rnatciies in Rotorua hauering from the assoeiation that rciurn. matehes wouid be playecl at Reporoa. Taniwha wa drawn to piay here but defaulted. It wa? a disappointment to Reporoa to learn that they wero expectod to travel to Rotorua iast Saturday. They had high hopes of defeating Shainrocks nut here — also Mourea, but the competitlon is now robbed o4" its interest. It seems uaiair that after approving of the principle of liorne and away matcheo, the assoeiation should expect Reporoa to travel to Rotorua four times without a g'ume here — or that they should l'avour Shamroeks. — I am, etc.

Reporoa, Sept. 4. (Inquivies macie of thc ucn. sec- : retary, Rotorua Lauies' Hockey Assoeiation (Mr. C. J. Casey) indieate that his committee has never at any time affirmed the principle of home and away niateiies. He stated that the assoeiation had hoped to arrangc for maiche? at Reporoa, if possible; it ha.,, however, not so t'ar been possible to do so. Had la^L Saturday's fixture not been the only A grade game . to be plaved, and the committee j not considered that it bad a duty to j the assoeiation'? supporters in Roro- | rua, the centre of hockey in the dis- j trict, to play the mateh at the Go- j vemment Grounds, it wou'd have on- j deavoured to arraage the «;an:e at Rc- j poroa). Ed. Morning Post.