HOCKEY FOR GIRLS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20372, 28 September 1929, Page 10

HOCKEY FOR GIRLS.

HEADMASTER'S OPPOSITION. REPLY BY ASSOCIATION. HIGH SCHOOL BOARD'S ATTITUDE [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN. CORRESPONDENT.] HAMILTON, Friday. A letter .was received by the Hamilton High School Board of Governors to-day from the Waikato Hockey Association in reply to a report submitted to a previous meeting of the board by the headmaster, Mr. E. Wilson, in which ho disapproved of hockey as a game for school girls. The association answered the points raised in Mr. Wilson's report and strongly urged that hockey was eminently suited as a game for school girls. ' The chairman, Mr. C. L. MacDiarmid, said the board should not allow itself to bo bullied by the association. He moved that the letter be received. Mr. J. E. Tidd seconded the motion, but said he did not agree that the association had tried to bully the board. He said Mr. Wilson was opposed to hockey for the school girls, and while he was headmaster his ruling must stand. Mr. F. A. Snell expressed the opinion that the association had made out a better case for the game than Mr. Wilson had made against it. Mr. J. Primrose described the asso- - ciation's letter as insulting. It was quite unfair to the and was an attempt to, dictate to the boSrd. Mr. J. R. Fow said he disagreed with Mr. Primrose. The association's letter went straight to the point. The speaker confessed he had been surprise and disappointed at Mr. Wilson's condemnation of the game, which indicated that hockey was bad for all girls, whether they went to school or not. Mr. Fow said he believed every game was as strenuous as it was made, and he had seen boys suffer more at basketball than at football. The whole point was that hockey could not be played by the school girls as long as the headmaster disapproved, and nothing could be done but to receive the association's letter. This course was adopted.