SERVICES TO HOCKEY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22092, 24 April 1935, Page 16

SERVICES TO HOCKEY

TWO OFFICIALS HONOURED Two well-known hockey men, Messrs. S. G. Holland and H. W. Rogers, have been honoured with life-membership of the Canterbury Hockey Association in recognition of their long and valuable services to the sport. Mr. Holland represented Canterbury on many occasions in his younger days and also played for the South Island in 1914. Nowadays he is better known as a referee and official. He refereed in the first test in which New Zealand engaged, against Australia in 1922. In addition to acting as President of the Canterbury Hockey Association and serving on the management committee of the New Zealand Hockey Association, he has selected Dominion teams, and in 1932 he was manager, selector and coach of the New Zealand team that toured Australia, playing eighteen matches without a loss.

Mr. Rogers, after playing in senior grade games for several years, was appointed secretary to the Canterbury Hockey Association in 1915, and subsequently he held the positions of vicepresident and president of the Association. For the past twelve years he has represented Poverty Bay on the New Zealand Hockey Association. Like Mr. Holland, Mr. Rogers is an efficient referee; to-day, in addition to filling other positions with credit, he is an examiner for the Canterbury Referees' Association and a lecturer on the laws and the playing of the game.