WOMEN’S HOCKEY

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 943, 9 April 1930, Page 14

WOMEN’S HOCKEY

and financial points of view is reviewed in the report of the Auckland Ladies’ Hockey Association, to be presented at the annual meeting on April 16 Last season saw the teams divided into two sections, one for business girls’ teams and the other for collegiate and school teams, the report states. In the business girls’ section play could not be said to have show n much improvement until the closing stages of the season, when the assistance of the Hockey Referees Association and lectures began to take effect. "The standard of play taken generally and particularly in junior grade is still much below that of several years ago,” the executive reports, and stresses the need for There was an increase of eight teams affiliated to the association, the total affiliation being 27. Five belonged to senior grade and 12 to junior grade in the business girls’ section. In the collegiate division five senior and five junior teams competed. Despite the fact that the Auckland Hockey Association saw fit not to hold its annual King’s Birthday tournament on June 3 the women held a successful tournament, the report continues. A very successful country week tournament took place from July 8 to July 15, three Auckland teams and 11 sub-associations’ teams taking part, an increase of one team over the previous year. The association again made application for the New Zealand Ladies’ Hockey Associations' tournament to be held in its territory, but was again unlucky, the tournament being allocated to the Poverty Bay Association. The association also entered a team in the recently formed Girls’ Cricket Association and won the championship in connection with that association’s first season, as well as having ten of its players selected to take part in a special feature game at Eden Park on Easter Saturday. The association entered two teams in the Cricket Association’s 1929-30 competitions, one senior grade team and one junior grade team. The balance-sheet shows a credit balance of £SB 3s Id, which is very satisfactory considering the only income is derived from donations received, affiliation fees, and the additional fund-raising efforts of the players themselves, and the big drain placed on the funds this year to meet tournament team expenses and higher ground rental.