HOCKEY TEAMS

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 217, 14 September 1936, Page 5

HOCKEY TEAMS

NEXT TWO YEARS’ PLANS

N.Z. TO VISIT AUSTRALIA NEGOTIATIONS WITH JAPAN Overseas hockey tours in the next two years were considered by the Management Committee of the New Zealand Hockey Association, at a recent meeting. An invitation from the Australian Hockey Association to send a team to ‘Australia in July of next year was accepted, and the possibility of having a Japanese team visit New Zealand in 193 S was considered.

For the Australian tour next year three New Zealand selectors were appointed immediately, to allow them to watch play in the remaining fixtures this season. Those elected were Messrs. R. H. Thompson (Wanganui), W. Newsham (Auckland, convener), and C. C. Holland (Canterbury). The invitation from the Australian Hockey Association stipulated that the New Zealand Association would be expected to find the steamer fares to and from Australia, and the authorities there would be responsible for all travelling expenses and board while the team is in Australia. The tour would be arranged to coincide with the All-Australia carnival in Sydney. The Australian Association suggested that the tour should occupy about six weeks, and hoped that in addition to matches against teams in New South Wales, Queensland, and Victoria, while the carnival was in progress, and before the lest match, matches might be arranged against Western Australia, South Australia, and possibly Tasmania, in Sydney.

Visit to Japan

Mr. H. S. Cordery, of Christchurch, who is now in Japan and was asked to make enquiries there about an exchange of visits between Japanese and New Zealand teams, wrote from Tokyo saying that he had interviewed the secretary of the Japan Hockey Association, Mr. Toshio Usami. Mr. Usami had told him that the Japanese would be keen to receive a visiting New Zealand team and undertook to write to New Zealand extending the invitation. It was decided to ask the Japan Association whether it would consider sending a team to New Zealand in 1938. It was hoped that New Zealand would send a team to Japan for the Olympic Games in 1940. The meeting decided to send congratulations to the India Hockey Association on its team’s success at the Olympic Games in Berlin.