HOCKEY IN AFRICA

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 657, 8 May 1929, Page 13

HOCKEY IN AFRICA

DOMINION TEAM TO TOUR Pre-ss Association WELLINGTON, Tuesday. The executive of the Ts'ew Zealand Ladies’ Hockey Council decided this evening' to send a team of 20 players with a manager and a coach to the proposed Empire tournament in South Africa in 1930. The whole of the affiliated associations are to be assessed and asked to find their quota. A reply is to be given at the end of June as to whether the associations accept the assessment. The tour will not be confirmed until the total of the money required, estimated at £2,000, is in sight. The team is to be thoroughly representative of New Zealand. The equipment of sticks has been guaranteed.

in big football was against the Spring- \ boks at Auckland in 1921. In the j first match against the same team at ' Dunedin he badly damaged his shoul- j tier in tackling the Flying Dutchman, j A. J. Van Heerden. as a result of j which Van Heerden faded out for the j remainder of the tour and Storey. ! shortly after, was compelled to give up j the game for good. KING COUNTRY UNION Delegates from all affiliated bodies j were present at the annual meeting of ; the King Country Rugby Union at Taumarunui. The president. Mr. G. S. ; Steadman. presided. Officers were j elected as follow: Patrons. Mr. F. Lang- ! stone, M.P. for Waimarino, and Mr. \V. J. Broadfoot, M.P. for Waitomo; presi - j dent. Mr. R. S. Webster; vice- i presidents, Messrs. G. 11. Boles (Otoro- : hanga), E. Tapp (Maniapoto), (Kawhia). E. M each am (Ohura), A. E. Rice (Taumarunui), F. J. Thompson (Ruapehu). J. 11. Lynskey (.King Country Referees’ Association); treasurer, Mr. A. E. Rice: secretary, Mr. B. M. Rice; delegates to New Zealand Union. Messrs. R. S. Webster, B. M. Rice, and F. Geashaw; auditor, Mr. S. Sarah: management committee, Messrs. E. F. Fail-brother (Otorohanga). T. Healy (Ohura). Body ‘Maniapoto), W. Melrose (Taumarunui). T. A. Blyth (Ruapehu), and J. H. Lynskey (King Country Referees’ Association). A vote of thanks was passed to Mr. G. S. Steadman for his past services, and he was elected a life member of the union. The meeting confirmed the boundaries affecting the Otorohanga and Maniapoto Sub-Unions, as accepted last year. A motion that the position affecting these unions revert to the position ruling in 1926 was ruled out by the chairman. Tt was decided to decline an invitation to a representative match with the Waikato Union on May 25 owing to the earliness of the date, but to keep the game in view. The registered office of the union will in future be at the premises of the secretary, Mr. B. M. Rice. Taumarunui. OPOTIKI UNION At a meeting of the Opotiki Rugby Union, held on Monday night, the committee decided, in view of the need for practise on the part of the senior representative team, that the union write to the Apanui Union asking that a representative match be played at Maraenui on June 1. It was also resolved to write to the Whakatane Union advising that the Opotiki Union was willing to play the usual representative match between the two unions at Taneatua on June 3 (King’s Birthday). The Bay of Plenty Union wrote .asking for affiliation fees. * These were passed for payment. An ex-Auckland player. Kenneth White, wrote asking for reinstatement. It was decided to forward a recommendation to headquarters.