HINEKOA HOCKEY CLUB.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2701, 21 April 1915, Page 2

HINEKOA HOCKEY CLUB.

'. The Hinekoa Hockey Club held a meeting last night, when the follow- ' ing officers were elected for the year: , Chaperon, Mrs Downer; President, 'Mr E. H. Fisher; Vice-Presideiits, Messrs J. W. Bramwell, G. Fitzpatrick, and H. Christmas; Captain, , Miss Vera Frecklington; Vice-Cap- . tain, Aliss Minnie Oakley j Committee, . Alisses Jean Lochhead and Aferle • Hubner; Secretary, Aliss Gladys Thompson; Asociation representative, Mr H. Christmas; Coach, Air Nuttall. It was decided : to practise twice a week, the first practice to take place this afternoon. Special attractions are advertised for Friday's sale-day matinee at the Lyceum Theatre this week. Charles Henderson and Ellen Russell, for drunkenness, were each fined 5s at the S.M. Court this morning. For failing to have a cllild's name on a school roll, as the law requires, D. Ale Lean was this morning fined 10s, with 7s costs. Mr C. J. D. Skinner, truant officer, prosecuted. William Hastie, William James Stubbs, and a female cyclist, were before the Court this morning for riding.cycles on the footpath. Hastie was fined 20s and 2s costs, Stubbs 5s and 2s costs, and the girl 10s and 2s cests. Thirty-six applications were received for the headmastership of the Napier Boys' High School. Two applicants were selected and asked to interview the " Board of Governors, one of these two being Air W. A. Armour, Principal of the Wanganui Technical College. "One of the war novetlics in England," said an officer of the steamer Boltana, which arrived in Sydney from London last week, "is the presonce of week-ending soldiers from the front. In London there were hundreds of them in the streets. They showed plainly the strain of the campaign, but it was wonderful how the short holiday bucked them up. They are the idols of the people, but their memories are too stern to allow them to be spoilt. Nothing could bring the war home to the people more than the fact that soldiers from the trenches in the fighting line can spend week-ends in England. "Every man of them," he added, "admits that it is almost impossible to exaggerate the severity of the campaign, but there was not one who was reluctant to fulfil his duty and return to the trendies after a taste of feather beds, and the comforts of domestic conditions at. home." Kitchener's army, , he declared., was a spelndid body of men. It had been estimated by responsible persons that 3,000,000 men had been enrolled, and the result was that now it was almost the exception and not the rule to find men in civilian clothes in the streets. j Writing from Cairo on Alarch 7, j Trooper C. R. L. Halloran, the Sydney Sun's correspondent with the Australiarr Light Horse abroad, says : We are still wondering when we will leave Egypt, and are all more or less anxious to do so —anyway, that is how the troopers of the 2nd A.L.H. Brigade look at things. Wild yarns circulate almost continuously. One minute an excited trooper rushes into his tent, and yells to his mates, "Boys, we're going to Turkey in two days from now!" The next minute the story is that Kitchener wants all the A.L.H. to be ready with horses and rifles in France, "at the first sign of spring." Following this is the rumour that we are fo get more training in England before going to the front; but it is part of the Army game to let the trooper and private know as little as possible. The equipment of the brigade is being rapidly completed and training proceeds swiftly, too. Alen and horses' are in excellent shape. There is, I believe, a big march ahead to-morrow for the whole brigade here at Ma'ncli. Anyway, our saddles are all ready for a" route march, having overcoat, mess-tin, portion of a picquet line, horse-shoe case, and a few other things, strapped to them, ready for a big parade at 8.15 a.m.