HOCKEY

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 342, 28 August 1933, Page 4

HOCKEY

Match at Stratford THURSDAY “A” v. SATURDAY In a match for the George and Doughty Cup at Stratford on Saturday'. the Thursday A senior men’s division team defeated a Saturday division team hy three goals to two and annexed the trophy.

i From a brilliant start that produced fast and carefully calculated play the game eased off in standard to become patchy until the last quarter of an hour, during which the Saturday team improved on its best form of the day in a desperate effort to nullify the one goal lead which the Thursday eleven had by then gained The well engineered Saturday attacks and the equally well organised Thursday defence produced speedy and highly interesting hockey. In the first half there was nothingbetween the two teams, but after Saturday secured the lead the Thursday forwards’ stick work and unison improved appreciably while the backs showed themselves adept at defence, with the result that Thursday rattled on two goals within a few minutes and thereafter successfully drove back the series of sorties which Saturday launched. Both full-backs played excellent games, and that the scoring was not higher could be ascribed in great measure to their play. Surgenor stood out in the Thursday forward and scored the three goals. He is well supported by the others, of whom S'. Betts and V. Betts were' prominent. Page and A. Times were often in the Saturday picture. The teams were:

Thursday' A: McLeod, Noonan, Pitcher. Parker, V. Betts, K. Albon, Boale, Pennington, Surgenor, S. Betts, Pascoe.

Saturday: Wallace. L. G. Tunes, Purcell. T. Limes. Page. Beavan, Ward, Tiplady, Ewart, Murtagh, A. Times.

Property for One Penny Tne fact that the Government had been offered an urban property in one centre in New Zealand lor a penny, which was the value placed upon it by the owner, was mentioned by the Hon. E. A. Ransom to a Timaru Borough Council deputation, to illustrate his contention that the provisions of section 45 of the Land Valuation Act were being abused by some landowners. The Minister said that the holder hoped to escape payment of rates on the land by offering it to the Government at a nominal figure. In another instance, owners of a block of laud behind Parliament Buildings had placed their own valuation on the property and offered it to the Government, thinking it would not be accepted. The offer was snapped up!

Whispering Campaign After the manner of all such movements, the New Zealand Legion, according to its president, Dr. 11. Campbell Begg, is the victim of a “whispering campaign.” “The statement has been made that the Government has army tanks stored in the four centres, and that the legion is to be an auxiliary force to work them,” Dr Begg (Informed his Auckland audience, “and that statement was made by an M.P.!” The president said the audience could imagine the chairman of the meeting taking his place in the front of the tank, or another member garbed in a Klu Klux Klan hoed, with two slits for eyes, masquerading the city streets at night. The movement, he added, had as much status as, and a great deal more democracy than, any party in New Zealand,, and the attempt being made in some quarters to convert it into a military organisation was part of the same whispering campaign and an attempt to disrupt it. There was no more potent weapon than the whispering campaign—the most contemptible, misrepresenting and viperish form of attack that could be launched.