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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 11, 13 July 1944, Page 6

Representative hockey and Soccer matches will toe played at the Basin Reserve on August 5 in aid of patriotic funds, it was stated at a meeting of the management committee of the Wellington Football Association last night. Women of the Services, representing the North and South Islands,'will play hockey and a Central Military Command Soccer team will play either a visiting naval team or an Air Force team.

On Saturday at the Basin Reserve a Wellington B team will play an Air Force team and two sth grade representative matches will be played between two Manawatu boys' teams and teams from Wellington and the Hutt Valley. Other fixtures arranged by the committee were:—July 22, Waterside v. Hospital; July 29, hockey . and club Soccer matches at the Basin Reserve; August 12, club Soccer games; August 19, Hutt Valley v. Wellington representatives; August 26, hockey and Soccer at the Basin Reserve; September 2, Canterbury v. Wellington. It was stated that the proposed match between the Central and Southern Military Commands had had to be abandoned owing to the Southern Command finding difficulty in fielding a team. Late advice was received by the committee from the New Zealand Council regarding entrance fees for the boys' Chatham Cup competition. The committee this year will pay the fees for six Wellington teams, of £1 Is a team, but stressed that it was not to be taken as a precedent for future years. The War Assets Realisation Board had been approached in an andeavour to obtain a shed suitable for a gymnasium at Lower Hutt, but at present there was nothing available. However, the board stated in a letter to the committee that it would keep' the application in view and would notify them later if a suitable building became available.

It was stated that an anonymous donor had given the W.F.A. a handsome silver cup for competition, it being left to the committee to decide on its nature. The committee will consider it again at a further meeting.

A delegation of 102 students, representing 1500 high school and college youths in 20 American States, voted 100 per cent, for a, strong world fed- ■ oration of the democracies as the nucleus of government to preserve peace, at their first annual convention held recently in New York.