HOCKEY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 96, 20 May 1909, Page 3

HOCKEY.

TARAXAKI ASSOCIATION'. A meeting of the Taranaki Uocke; Association Wits held la^l ,-v,Miu,y. Tli'-'r were present: Messrs F. I'. I'orkill (pre sident), ill thi" chair; J. Turner (l\u Orn. lnglewood|, 11. Hilling (lngk'.wood| Dew-hirst (,Stratford), Barnard (lil tham). Perhain Thoiusun (Hawera), Crawford (\"e» Plymouth West). K. Avery (Now Ply month East), and J. 1 ; . Strang (sccro tary). XEW KULIXHS. A U-lu-r was received irom the Xev Zealand Association, expressing tin opinion that alterations made in till l'nles of the game by the English Asso ciution should become operative immedi ately upon rm-ijit in the Dominion. — proposition was carried that this Asso ciation is still o{ opinion that amend ment of rules, if notice of them is received after the commencement of the play ing season, should not come into fovei until the following season, and that no rules should lie recognised until notified by the Xew Zealand Association. ALTERATIOX OF RULES. Mr. Avery moved, in accordance with notice—(l) That each club pay £1 Is affiliation fee to the Association, and that an entrance fee of 10s be charged for each team competing in cup competitions; (2} that any club entering two teams in the competition have two representatives on the Association. An amendment was moved by Messrs Billing and Sen-hirst, that the matter be held over for consideration at the next annual meeting.—Lost. The first section of the motion was carried, and the second withdrawn bv jonaent. ' HUIIIAM AND KIA ORAS. Mr. Billing, depending on rule (i, objected to the affiliation of the Eltham 31ub, the rule providing that new clubs :ould be admitted only at the annual meeting. > It was pointed out that if the club Muld not be affiliated now, the chances ivere that the Eltham, Hockey Club would not be admitted at all, for the ilayers would probal>lv drift away into iome other sport.—Sir. Billing said lie -vas not in sympathy with hie objection, >ut he was acting on instructions from us club. The chairman said he would be willing -o admit the club if the meeting was inamnious, hut the Inglewood delegate itill objected. It was decided, to ask Inglewood to relonsider its attitude upon this question. A proposal by the Hawera delegate to inter a, B team, of Eltham players, was net by the Inglewood delegate's objection that the time for receiving entries lad closed. On that head, the Inglewood jlub objected, too, to Kia- Ora taking? (art. 6 Mr. Thomson said the game was in its nfancv, and the game would have little ;hance of going ahead under these conlitions. Mr. Avery said the Inglewood Club vas exhibiting a verv paltrv spirit and t seemed that the shield was goinn- to lo more harm than good to hoekev in -aranaki. J The action of the secretarv in adinitliig the Kia Ora. Club to the Assoeiaron- of the Fixtures Committee in alotting matches to the, Kia Oras was uscussed and approved. Mr Perham moved: That the Eltham -tab be affiliated to the Association; hat the Km Ora and Eltham Clubs be .Bowed to compete, in, the club contests or tlie shield; that northern and southirn divisions be formed, the northern omprisrag Xew Plymouth, Carringtou toad, Inglewood A and B, the southern comprising Hawera, Eltham, Kia Ora ind Stratford; that new fixtures be ra-wn up, the already played matches letfleen the, teams in the cup competi-aon-to be counted, and that the teams n the northern division have preference "the use of the Inglewood ground This mot,on met with the unanimous ipprcrtal of tlie delegates. ' ALLEGED .miscoxdi.ct The president called upon tlie delegate '' e Of" Club to explain the alle«:d -rowdyism of his club in a railway car•iage between Hawera and Inglewood va- ho'i rn thc Ea . ihva y department holding ontjuivy Jl r :J" T " er vai<l " l,£ 1,6 ible to show very shortlv that the »vmastic feats were not tile work of the , Ti '?' , ' ,ul onl -V f o«r I'ot--e» of beer, and others shared in dispoonfc of that. Ihe train was a "race lain, ami the carria-ge a smoking rarlage. Jhe race people under the inluenee of liquor naturally made for the >moker. One inebriate, in the t,oW ilon " f " bottle of whisk v. looked for i corkscrew, and, not finding one, looked or trouble. Then he M t on the ,l.u„-. m „ IP ,- fe T n , l < '"" li,, = in IM V<I him ?! ,;■ " fon «»ately, if there were an itliletu- team travelling in a train, and ii" i'T U " U '"'" : 'l«avr ?ot the blame. One of the team al'so managed to sit on the door. The president saiil it was unfortunate tnd wrong, that thosefflu„ lu - bottles of ' w ' l m' take " the train, n i- I?" ISOn said he saw the Kia Oras leaving llawera by train, mid he was positive that not one of them was at all influenced by liquor. it was decided to postpone further enquiry until more was heard from thc Railway Department.

GENERAL. The JUociation's representative on the jS "?, Jan " Association notified that larunakis challenge for the shield had been received. ThamoK got in first THE AUCKLAND HATCH. The Auckland Association wrote offering £5 toward'* the Xaranaki rep. team's' espensfcs in a match against Auckland at Auckland. Tn a further letter the Association asked for a match at Xew Plymouth on August 28th, and required 'a guarantee. It -was decided that the funds of thei Association would not permit of a guarantee. .The Inglewood Club asked that J H .Turner (Kia Ora Club) be posted as a defaulting memlier of the Inglewood Uub.—After hearing his explanation and pending the minutes of the club's meeting, the Association decided not to aecede to the request. A "*'T commented on the fact that in the Xew Plymouth East v Tndewood match at Inglewood the visitors were ready at 3 o'clock, and demanded lialf-an-hour s grace.—The Fixtures Committee will be asked to fix the times tor starting matches.

Arrangements were made for draw-in" up the new fixtures. c

The following will represent Whakitika (ladies) in tlieir match against Inglewood on tile Haeeeourijv to-day <ioal, O. Peddie; backs. K. I'eim and'];. Ilurle; halves, (). lilanehett, Jf. Arthur, and p. Whitaker; forwards. A. Whitaker, / Brash, .M. JlcEwimi, X. MeConnell and A. Arthur; emergency, E. Cornev.