HOCKEY TEST MATCH

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 31, 5 August 1936, Page 13

HOCKEY TEST MATCH

On Saturday afternoon Wellingtoniahs will have their final opportunity of seeing the touring Fijian women's hockey, team in action, this time against New Zealand's best exponents of the game, in the only. Test match of the tour. The Fijians have created considerable interest^ wherever they have appeared, partly because -of their unique type of play, and partly because of their unorthodox uniform on the field. The team has almost completed its tour of New Zealand, and has become more accustomed to the strange conditions prevailing, and consequently an. improved • performance can be expected when it takes'the field on Saturday. The New Zealand team is composed mainly of players who toured Aust'raliailas,t.year and defeated most of the leading teams of that country in addition to winning the only Test match of the "tour. The curtainraiser will be played between, representative third and fourth grade men's teams

On No. 2 ground Waterside and Diamond will meet, in a first division Soccer championship game. Waterside are Wellington's • representatives in the Chatham Cup competition', and are playing at the top of their form, but they should find it no easy task to defeat Diamond, who are fighting to escape the possibility of relegation.