FIJIAN HOCKEY TEAM.
TWO MORE VICTORIES
WAI PA AND RODNEY BEATEN
The. team of hockey players from Fiji, at present toiil'iiijr Auckland province-. boat Waipa on Saturday and Rodney yesterday. At Otorohanga the Wai pa match was won 2 1. lha margin at Warkwo-.th "as Miiiila:, imt tin' scoring higher. Rodney going down 4-3. So far the Fijian.* are undefeated, l>aviiitf previously conqueie<! Piako (Country Week champion i 2—l. Whakatane County 4—o. and Kotonia .'} -0; while the King Country engagement ended in a two-goal draw. The remaining games are against Thames-Ham,iki. at Thames, to-morrow; Franklin, at Waiuku, on Tliui'sdaj . and an eleven chooen from the country distrkts. on Saturday. The last-named match will be 'played as a curtain-raiser to Hie New Zealand Shield challenge Waik-it . v. Auckland, at Park. Rmiueia. The team sails for home by the Monterey on Monday afternoon.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 191, 15 August 1939, Page 16
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141FIJIAN HOCKEY TEAM. Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 191, 15 August 1939, Page 16
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