MAORIS AT HOCKEY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21492, 16 May 1933, Page 7

MAORIS AT HOCKEY

GISBORNE TOURNAMENT ELABORATE PREPARATIONS [BY TELEGRAPH OWX CORRESPONDENT] GISBORNE, Monday Preparations are in hand on a largo scale for the Tairawhiti Maori Hockey Federation's annual hockey tournament to be held at Gisborne on June 20 to 23. It is anticipated that several hundred players from Hawke's Bay, the Bay of Plenty and Gisborne will take part, and eating and sleeping arrangements for the visitors are being made at Pohoorawiri with customary enthusiasm. The fixture will rival anything of the kind yet held in the district. , All the visiting teams will be accommodated at Pohoorawiri, where temporary shelters are to be erected and the dining room accommodation extended. Camp reveille will sound at 6 a.m. and morning, service . will take place at 6.30. Breakfast will follow at 7 a.m., teams drawn for the early matches eating first and the others in rotation, according to the time of their first appearance on the hockey ground. Light lunch will bo served at the Childer's Road Reserve, where the tournament is to be played, and the players will return to Pohoorawiri for dinner at 5.30 p.m. Later there will be an evening prayer meeting, followed by.art entertainment of. general interest. A: feature of the. tournament will be a haka competition. Each team is under obligation to present a haka, and there Will be trophies for the winning teams in the respective divisions. The trophies competed for in the hockey tournament will be the Lady Ngata Memorial Gold Cup for the ladies' division and the Taranaki Te Ua Memorial Shield, a handsome carved trophy, for the men's division. Four grounds will bo in use. As one match is completed another will commence, a horn blowing at 20-minute intervals for new games to be started.