HOCKEY.

Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 36, 11 August 1905, Page 5

HOCKEY.

REPRESENTATIVE TRIAL MATCH. The following players tiave been selected to take part in a trial match at Day's Bay to-morrow afternoon in view of the rep. match to be played against Canterbury, on the 19bh August: — A team : Full-backs, Ashbolt, C. Hickson, Pearson; halves, Reid, Campbell, Weyboucne; forwards, Allan, Elliott, Hickson, Hull, Smythe. B team : Full-backs, Staples, Bfeere, Preston; halves. Smith, Skelly, Smyfcno; forwards, Hollis, Putnam, Pope, G. Davics, Donovan. The A team will wear tho representative jeriieys, and the B team white jerseys.

Ab a meeting of the Council of the Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday it was decided to write to Mr. M'C'onechy, i representative' from Manchester, who is touring the colony with the object of promoting direct trade between New Zealand and that port, asking him to address the members of the Chamber on the subject. Mr. M'Conochy will arrive in Wellington in about ten days. Mr. W. H. Ballinger, Captain of the tfetone Rifle Club," who attended the Bisrey meeting this year as an unattached Sexr Zealand rifleman, practised with the members of our Bisley team when the .atter wero competing, for places in the team, that was to. shoot for the Kolapore Cap. Mr. Ballinger shot co consistently tod stoidily throughout the test that the team would undoubtedly- have been strengthened by his inclusion when shooting for the Cup. His aggregate for the test was 567, whioh was higher than tho aggregates of eight of the twelve members of our Bisley team, the highest aggregates, as mentioned by our correspondent in yesterday's Post, being those of Irvine (674), Milroy (670), Brown (670), and Pearson (bßi).