HOCKEY FOR GIRLS
MISS SANDFORD’S ADVOCACY “I have heard that hockey is regarded by some people here as too rough or too strenuous a game for girls,” said Miss E. H. Sandford, headmistress of the Diocesan High School for Girls, at the annual prize-giving yesterday. “It can, of course, be a rough game, and I am not going to say that nobody will get hurt,” she added. Hockey should not be rough if properly taught. In England It was found that, If anything, lacrosse could be the more strenuous of the two. Both hockey and lacrosse were games of the first class, but Miss Sandford confessed she was prejudiced in favour of hockey. She believed the advantages to be derived from the playing of these games, both from the moral and physical point of view, was inestimable. | She desired to urge parents to give their support to these games so that they might become school games, and not be played by only a fraction of the girls.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 31, 29 April 1927, Page 4
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