LADIES AT HOCKEY

Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2303, 4 September 1929, Page 6

LADIES AT HOCKEY

RUAHINE UNBEATEN FOUR GAMES AND FOUR WINS BAD WEATHER (Per Press Association). Gisborne, Sept. 3. Tim fifth day of the New Zealand ladies’ hockey championship to-day was marred by bad weather. The games started in suns! jjne, but torrential rain fell within ten minutes of the conclusion of the first series ol matches—those between Southland and Bush, Rotorua, and Auckland A and. Canterbury and Eastern Southland. ' • For the starting of the iecornl series ol games the rain cleared off hut fairly heavy showers fell af in- 1 tervals. Despite this handicap, however, the games were eontihued without interruption. In section A the winners were Southland, Rotorua, and Ruahine In B section, the winners were Canterbury, Wellington and Hawke’s Bay. HOW THEY STAND A Section After the fifth day’s' play {lie

To-morrow Bush have a bye in the A section and Canterbury in B section. • . On Friday the winners of A section play the winners of ,B.section and the Pakeha r. Maori match will ho contested. The tournament will conclude on Saturday when Island will meet. South Island. k.

positions are as follow: Games Wins Kuahine 4 4 Southland 4 4 ■' Toverty Bay A 4 3 Jtotorua 4 3 A ock.ulnd A f; — South Canterbury ' \ '—' B Section f - Games Wins Canterbury 5 6 Wellington 4 4 . Wiairarapa 4 2 Eastern ‘Southland 4 1 Hawke’s Bay , 4 2 ■ Auckland I> 5 2 I’overt yBay B 4 — .