HOCKEY.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 144710, 19 June 1915, Page 8

HOCKEY.

At n ,g Management Committee of tho Wellington Ladies' Hockey . «... u,.s decided io inform the Now Zealand Associut-lou that tho local association did not wish tho annual ladies’ tournament to bo bold in Wellington. Hus year, but that if the New Zealand body considered that the tourney should be* held in Wellington it would agree to hold the function. One of the results of the introduction of the Saturday half-holiday in Wellington is Hie death to Wednesday hockey in that town. Tim Wednesday Association has boon in existence ior Hie past ton years, and in winding up its plavers will (brow in their lot with ; Hie .Saturday A ssocialion. As there were several very good exponents uj the game confimd In Wednesday play., their inclusion iu Hie Saturday competitions should be the means ot strengthening some of Hie clubs there. Early in the season a paragraph appeared in a Southern exchange in support of the decision of Hie New Zealav.t Hockey Association that, shield and (Up matches should not be a-fiamionyd this year. At ihe time, say-; Hie journal referred io, the inroads made into hockey teams in the way oi members volunteering for acHvc service, wt-ro not oi sueii a nature Hint Hie drastic step recommended required much consideration. Since then, however, tho’ ranks of the shield-holders, Welling-* ton, have 'm on so seriously depleted 1 Her,. LIm* oae.-a.ion might wail be again discussed by tin council with a new to the abandonment of proposed challenge gaum.,, Tfie associations who have challenges in for cither ihe New Zealand Association’s Shield <>r the Nordou Chip could camel their challenge*! and give the amounts they proposed i.o spend on sending-teams away, to some patriotic fund.