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HOCKEY

AUSTRALIAN TOUR REARRANGED

WELLINGTON OFFERED A WED

NESDAY MATCH.

Intimation was received at last night's meeting of the Management Committee of the Wellington Hockey . Association that still a further alteration had been made in the arrangements for the Australian tour.

According to a letter received from the New Zealand Association, the Australians will now play their first, match, at Nelson on Saturday, 9th September, and, the association suggested, Welling^ ton should have the second game on the following Wednesday. The Test match is ti be played at Palmerston North on a date to be arranged. It was decided by the Wellington Association last night that unless the NewZealand body would give Wellington a game on either 23rd or 30th September, the local association would take no part in tho .tour. A letter conveying this decision is being forwarded to Christchurch to-day.

Several prominent players, when approached by a Posr reporter this morning, oxpressed ths opinion that the NewZealand Association was not acting in the interests of the game in transferring so important, a fixture as-an-international hockey Test match from Wellington to Palmerston North. This was the firib time that a hockey team from another countryXhad visited New Zealand; and, every efWri. should have been made to make the tm»r a success. The Welling-, ton Association, it was pointed out, had. made all the arrangements for controlling the Test match, and now they were informed that all they were to have was a match with the local representatives on a Wednesday Such, an offer ww really an insult to the local association, which had probably done more for the game of hockey than any other association in the Dominion. A Wednesday match would probably result in a heavy loss to the association, which was at the present time labouring under heavy financial difficulties, and practically every player would support the Mana-ement Committee in turning down the offer. One player stressed the fact that a change in the location of hockey headquarters, or, at least, a chance in the personnel of the New Zealand Association, was lonir overdue. Certainly the necessity for a change was emphaeised by decisions such.as the latest. :/_

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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 24, 28 July 1922, Page 2

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HOCKEY Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 24, 28 July 1922, Page 2

HOCKEY Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 24, 28 July 1922, Page 2

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