HOCKEY.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume VI, Issue 1624, 29 April 1919, Page 11 (Supplement)

HOCKEY.

CANTERBURY ASSOCIATION. A meeting of the Management Committee of the Canterbury Hockey Association Was held last evening, Mr "W. Simpson presiding. The chairman was appointed to represent the association at - a meeting to be con- , vencd by the Canterbury Progress League for the purpose of advancing sport in Canterbury. • A suggestion by the Sydenham Hockey Club that the association-should take steps to standardise all club's subscriptions and towards securing that all grounds should be controlled by the association—the expenses to be allotted among the clubs—was referred to a sub-committee for a report. It was decided'to forward an opinion to the New Zealand Hockey Association that schools' hockey is impracticable, and that an interprovincial competition be held for players under 20 years of age. A sub-committee was appointed to go into the question of schools' hockey. It was decided to forward a challenge for the New Zealand Hockey Shield. The following sub-committees were appointed : Competitions: Messrs Holland, Ballamy, and Crawford. Permit: Messrs Tbrop, Smith, and Morris. Emergency: Messrs Hollar!, Rogers, and Bellamy. The following oflieors were appointed:— Treasurer, Mr \V. C. Bishop; deputy-chair-man, Mr S. Holland; Judiciary Committee, Messrs Simpson, Bishop, and Bobb; register keeper, Mr S. Morris. A sub-committee was appointed to consider the question of holding a hockey tournament on June 3. A Dakota potato grown by Mr A. Boyd on his farm at Buapuna turned the scale at 21b Boz. The size of the tuber is the more remarkable seeing that the crop had been cut back five times with the frosts early in the season. A great snowstorm in England on Sunday endangered the crops, damaged' the orchards and dislocated the telegraph and telephone services. Five thousand wires are down, Several inches of snow fell in London, necessitating the xise of snow-ploughs to clear the tramlines in some districts.