HOCKEY

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27640, 22 April 1955, Page 4

HOCKEY

VISIT OF INDIAN TEAM ITINERARY MAY BE CHANGED (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, April 21. The New Delhi State hockey team, because of shipping accommodation difficulties, may not be able to adhere to its original itinerary for its tour of New Zealand this season. Mr E. E. Cummins, a member of the New Zealand Hockey Association’s management committee, said today that as the team was unable to get berths in the Himalaya, it would not be able to arrive in New Zealand on June 10 as planned. Efforts were being made, he said, to secure passages on another ship, failing which the team would have to wait a month for the next trip of the Himalaya.

CHANGE SUGGESTED FOR UMPIRES’ BADGES (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, April 21. Because of uncertainty overseas on the meaning of the initials "N.Z.”, the name New Zealand” should be on the badges of hockey umpires, said Mr J. L. Squire at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Hockey Umpires’ Association last night. The meeting referred the matter back to the executive committee with the recommendation that it consider including the words ‘'New Zealand” in full and also having different badges for the jersey and for the blazer. Til? chairman of the management com- ( * Mr e W L?A 1 Wllson) announced that Mr W. A. Scott (Otago) had been awarded an international hockey umpire’s badge. The only other holder of this badge is the national secretary (Mr W. H. Down)