THE AUSTRALIAN PLAYERS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 33, 8 February 1940, Page 16

THE AUSTRALIAN PLAYERS

Three Australian girls, Miss Thelma Coyne, Miss Nancy Wynne, and Miss Margaret Hardcastle, arrived at Auckland on Monday from Sydney, and are now staying in Wellington. They are members of the Australian lawn tennis team which is taking part .in the New Zealand championship tournament at Miramar, Wellington. Shortly after their boat berthed they left for Hamilton, where they played an exhibition match, -later travelling to Wellington by train. They also expect to visit Christchurch, and will return to Auckland to join the Mariposa, which sails for Sydney on February 17, states the "Auckland Herald."

Except for a day spent in Auckland when on their way home from a tour of England and the United States of America in 1938, this is the first time that Miss Coyne and Miss Wynne have visited New Zealand. Miss Hardcastle will be remembered as the winner of the singles title in the New Zealand lawn tennis championships held in Christchurch last January, and she has many memories of her month spent in the Dominion. All three are disappointed that they will not be spending more time in the Dominion, and hope they will be able to fit a > visit to Rotorua into their hurried tour. Miss Coyne is the only member of the trio who works, her job being with a Sydney sports firm, a position filled by many well-known Australian playI ers. i In spite of the fact that most of their time is taken up with tennis, which they play continuously for four months of the year, and practise all the year round, all three have many other interests. Swimming is their auxiliary sport in the summer, and golf in the winter. All are interested in photography, and Miss Coyne and Miss Wynne have several albums filled with photographs taken during their eight months' tour in England and America. These two are also enthusiastic drivers and own their own cars.