Four-year Term For Selectors Sought
(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON. New Zealand hockey selectors should hold office for four years, Mr R. K. Purchase told the Wellington Hockey Association executive on Tuesday night.
“Instead of appointing selectors from six months to six months, we should appoint someone to coach and select a team for the Olympic Games, which is our real purpose,” Mr Purchase said. “We should let the national association know of our views on this.” A national coach must be someone capable of coaching a team in the style played at the Olympic Games, said the president of the Wellington Hockey Association (Mr A. Carr).
“It is not hockey, it is not sport—but neither are most of the competitions at the Olympic Games,” he said. “It is a case of win and win at all costs.” The association’s secretary (Mr B. Bremner) said the present selectors were in a better position, from their experience at the Olympic Games at Mexico, to make use of overseas hockey tactics. The meeting nominated Mr C. Walter to the selection panel and asked that the panel be available, if possible, for four years.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31988, 15 May 1969, Page 15
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