HOCKEY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11249, 14 April 1908, Page 7

HOCKEY.

GISBORNE LADIES' CLUB

A special meeting, of the members of the Gisborne Ladies' Hockey Club was held yesterday afternoon to consider important matters respecting the constitution of the Club. There were about twenty members present; the Rev. M. Cockerill, who generously volunteered his assistance, was voted to the chair.

After a lengthy discussion it was decided that the business of the previous meeting should be declared void through informalities \ which had arisen.

The chairman explained the necessity for the adoption of a constitutional basis for the better control and working of the Club, which, after due, consideration^ was approved of. The Club thereby retains the name of the Gisboriie Ladies' Hockey Club, the membership of which is tixed for honorary members at. 5s per, annum, and players at 3s 6d per ahniim. . The rules also provide for the . mode of election of new members and for, the general management of the. Club.

The late secretary, Miss B. Goffe, presented the balance sneet / and - accounts for last Season, and it was unanimously greed that the liability of £2 4s standing- over should be' borne by! a pro-rata levy upon the members of the old club. The following officers were appointed, subject to their approvil :— Patron, Mr \V..,D. : Lysnar; patroness, Mrs Lysnar; president, Mr Wachsmann; vice-presi-dents, Mesdames R. U.. Burke, .Goffe, it. N. Joiies, H. Bright, W. *G. Sherratt, and Gillingham, Messrs C. Buscke, Goffe, A. F. Matthews, Pavitt, Hon. C.tpt. . Tucker. Judge Jones, and the Revs. Cockerill and Chatterton ; execu^ tive committee, Misses E. Jones, D. S. Osborne, Walters, V. Simson, G. Warren, Sawyer, Winter, Lang and Hooper ; : secretary, pro tem, Miss D. S. Osborne. The question* of affiliation with . the Poverty Bay Hockey Association war considered and generally . approved of. A subcommittee was appointed to take the matter 111 hand and report to the executive coinmitte.

After further discussion the meeting concluded with a vote of thanks to the chairman.

(Per Press Association.! > AUCKLAND, tliis day. The Auckland Hockey Association meeting was held <ggjtt evening, there being i very large attendance. The annual re-{ ;->ort stated that the past season was the,' nost successful in the hisloiy of the, game in Auckland, the Association having,* played and won each of the five vepiesentitiVe matches they contested, and being

subsequently awarded the Xew Zealand Association's challenge shield. The receipts during the year amounted to £145, and the expenditure to £128. Messrs G. Cowper and Walter Johnson, of Christchurch, were elected delegates to the New Zeillaild Hockey Association. ' It wan stated that several Southern unions Intended visiting Auckland during the season in quest of the championship shield, Tlie prospects of the game are exceedingly bright, and new clubs are being formed in almost every township ill the province.