HOCKEY CLUB’S NEW NAME
The Woolston Hockey Club is to amalgamate with the Woolston Working Men’s Club, the new club to be named the Woolston Working Men’s Club Hockey Club. This allows the hockey players the use of a fully equipped ground and pavilion, facilities which they have not had before. The new head-
quarters will be at Garrick Park. The hockey club will be a self-contained unit with the backing of the working men's club.
“We have been competing against old boys’ clubs who have had the use of school facilities,” said the secretary (Mr D. Coulter) yesterday.
“Woolston has coached many players at primary school, but once they go on to secondary schools, they join the school team and are lost to the club which has fostered their hockey inter, est.” The new move' should arrest the drift and boost the club’s membership, Mr Coulter said.
A former New Zealand captain, N. H. Hobson, will coach the senior team. Two other New Zealand representatives, J. C. Abrams and R. Gillespie, will coach the younger players. The Woolston club began in 1940 under the name of the Marathon club.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31498, 12 October 1967, Page 15
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