WEST COAST BOYS ARRIVE

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21245, 17 August 1934, Page 16

WEST COAST BOYS ARRIVE

FOOTBALL AND DEBATING! TEAMS | TOI'UNAMENT AGAINST WEST CHUISTCJIUItCH A football team and a debating team from the Hokitika District High School arrived in Christchurch yesterday afternoon for the annual match and debate against the West Christchurch District High School. The match will be played at South Hagley Park this afternoon, and the debate will be held in the Training College Hall tonight. The West Coast boys are all billeted with pupils of the West Christchurch School, and are in charge of Mr J. L. Menzies, headmaster, and Mr C. L. Harper. They went to the winter show last evening, where they were the guests of the organisers. This morning they will be welcomed at West Christchurch, and will later inspect the Kaiapoi Woollen Company s j mill at Kaiapoi. They will return to Hokitika to-worrow. The following is the Hokitika football team:—G. Stapleton, W. Douglas, J. Douglas. D. Spence, J. Hanrahan, M. Morgan, P. Hurren, M. Hanrahan, T. Childs, H. Pierson, R. McCarthy, A. Gillman, A. Coles, J. Leslie, R. Stevenson. Emergencies: J. Fitzgerald and A. Raine. The debating team is: A. Coles, T. Childs, and J. Hanrahan. The West Christchurch debating team is:—A. Mahony, C. Curtis, and W. Strachan. The subject is, "That in the interests 01 the national well-being a dictatorship is a benefit to democracy." West Christchurch will take the affirmative. Mr H. McD. Vincent will act as judge.