INDIAN HOCKEY TEAM

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19694, 28 July 1938, Page 4

INDIAN HOCKEY TEAM

VISIT TO GISBORNE

MAORI RECEPTION

ARR ANGEM ENTS MADE

Final arrangements have been completed for the visit of the Prince of Manavadar's Indian hockey team to Gisborne next week. The team will arrive at Gisborne on Wednesday afternoon, and the evening has been kept free for them, except that some members will probably attend the pictures as the guests of the King's Theatre management-

On Thursday the team will visit the High School at 9.30 a.m. for a run out, and the opportunity will be taken for a talk to be given to the scholars by Professor Jagan Nath, manager of the team.

At 10.30 a.m. a Maori welcome and civic reception, will be held at Poho-o-Rawiri.

The team includes some members who were with the last touring side from India in 1935, and they have very pleasant recollections of the Maori welcome extended to them then. Therefore, the team is looking forward to the Poho-o-Rawiri function next week.

The match against Poverty Bay will be held on the Childers Road Reserve at 2.30 p.m. next Thursday, and a dinner will be given to the team that evening at the Masonic Hotel.

A dance will be given in honour of the visitors that evening in the City Hall, the return journey to Napier being made on the Friday morning, where the touring team will play Hawke's Bay.

WOMEN'S TOURNAMENT

810 INTEREST AROUSED

LARGE ENTRY EXPECTED

Great interest has been aroused among hockey circles throughout the Dominion in the Dominion tournament to be held in Gisborne at the end of August, and a large entry of 12 to 14 teams is expected. Entries close in Wellington to-morrow. The tournament dates have been fixed for August 27 to September 3. Billeting arrangements are proceeding satisfactorily under the direction of a committee, of which Mr. V. Butler is the convener. Transport arrangements have been made from all parts of the Dominion, and an attractive list of entertainments has been drawn up. Spotting Competition

With a view to creating a carnival feeling during the tournament, the Poverty Bay Hockey Association has commenced a spotting competition. The shopkeepers of Gisborne have entered into the spirit of the competition, and this is shown by the large number of red stickers displayed on the shop windows.

Good prizes will be given to the winners and a great deal of interest already is being displayed. For the information of the public it is clearly advised that the spot displayed Is definitely an article not sold or stocEed by that particular firm.

Entries should give the shop sticker number and the name of the article assumed to be the spot. Children in particular are requested not to annoy the shopkeepers in an effort to ascertain the name of the spot article. It will ba in the window.

Entries will close on August 31 with Messrs, Fitzmaurice and Butler, and must be accompanied with an entry fee of 6d. The spotting article once selected by the shopkeeper will not be changed throughout the competition, but may be shifted in the window. Further stickers may "be procured by ringing telephone 532.