Hockey PAKISTAN TEAM’S TOUR

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28539, 19 March 1958, Page 7

Hockey PAKISTAN TEAM’S TOUR

Arrangements And Umpires The Pakistan High Commissioner for Australia and New Zealand (Lieutenant-General Mohammed Yusef) would attend the first hockey test between Pakistan and New Zealand to be played at Christchurch on April 12, said Mr W. H. Down, secretary of the New Zealand Hockey Association last evening. He would also attend the reception given to the team by the Prime Minister (Mr Nash) at Wellington on April 16. The team would arrive in Auckland on the evening of Thursday, March 27 and would fly to Christchurch the next morning. It would arrive in Christchurch at 12 noon and would then go on to Ashburton for the first match of the tour at 4 p.m. that day. said Mr Down.

Several Christchurch umpires had been appointed to umpire matches during the team’s tour. All the Christchurch men are holders of the badge of the New Zealand Hockey Umpires* Association.

The appointments made by the New Zealand Hockey Association, are:—

South Island matches: —v. North Otago, Messrs N. Pinder (Oamaru) and N. Hocking (Canterbury); v. Gore, Mr O. B Dey (Gore) and a Pakistan umpire; v. Southland, Messrs R. H. Aitchison (Invercargill) and H. Turner (Manawatu); v. Otago Messrs S. Swift and G. Maloney (Canterbury); v. South Canterbury, Messrs B. W. Robers and W. D. Sloane (Canterbury); v. Ashburton. Mr F. S. Kiddey (Grey mouth) and a Pakistan umpire; v. Canterbury, Messrs W Morris (Canterbury) and H. D. Kelly (Wellington); v. West Coast, Messrs I. Burn (Greymouth) and E. Jackson (Canterbury); v. Nelson, Mr W. D. Stewart (Nelson)