DAY BY DAY.

Waikato Times, Issue 12177, 12 September 1911, Page 4

DAY BY DAY.

The fact of a hockey tournament being played at Wellington

The last week, drew from a Hockey correspondent a condemaa,Girl. tion of thei dresses worn Ib'y the hockey girls. Another writer took up the pen on be half of the Amazons and said that it would be bard to find a body of girls more neatly dressed and genermore spruce than those associated with hockey. Miost of the uniforms, we are told, showed very good: tast e and made %r more for neataegs and freedom of movement thain that garment mentioned in fashion ihooks : 'Alf an inch, : Alf an inch, 'Alf an incn onward, 'Ampered by 'obbles, 'Opped the six 'undred. The shocked one, it appears, asserted that the hockey girls would consider it infra dig to use a scrubbing brush with as much energy as they use a hockey stick, which brough forth an indignant denial from writer number two, who says that hockey girls do not play all the round, and that very few o£ them devote more than onte half-day a week to playing the 'game. He also contends that the girl who does not care for sunshine and fresh air is the one 'whose exercise consists chiefly of drinking tea. talking ' scandal, discussing dress, and other feminine frivolities, it really does seeha that after all the hockey girl is l more to be desired than that other, and that the* matter of an inch 1 or so in the length of a skirt is quite beside the question.

At the present time it is interesting to learn the future pros-

The pects of the German navy. German Recently Mr McKenna in Fleet, answer in a question in the British House of Commons, stated : " The Government has no official information regarding the newer German Dreadnoughts beyond the -dates of delivery for the following ships : Goeben, spring, 1912 ; Kaiser, summer, 1912 i; Friedrich der Grosse, autumn, 1912; Ersatz Aegfir, Hagen and Odii>. and cruiser J, spring, 1913." Thus in the spring of 1913 Germany will have completed thirteen "battleships and four cruisers of the Dreadnought type, a total of seventeen ships. At that date the British strength will be eighteen battleships and seven cruisers of the Dreadnought type, a total of twenty-five ships. The newer German battleships are ■'believed to be larger than any 1 . 'Battleship yet laid down for the British Navy. Germany for the time 'being has the largest battleship and the largest armored cruiser yet completed for sea.ln Novemjber of this year, however, Britain will improve her position by commissioning the 26,500-ton cruiser Lion, and will then have the largest armored cruiser in service in any navy.