Controversy.
p. 17 · Read in the full issue
“Following The Flag.”
Hockey Team Causes Mild Controversy.
BECAUSE they will travel to Suva on a foreign ship, the women’s hockey team which will visit Fiji this month, have been hauled over the coals for not patronising a British shipping line.
After a special meeting of the N.S.W.
Women’s Hockey Association in Sydney last month, the secretary announced that the players chosen to visit Fiji were:—Goalkeeper, Moriarty; full backs, Johnson (vice captain), Cowley and Hollingsworth; half-backs, G. O’Brien, Whyte, Lamb, and N. Wicks (captain); forwards, Burrell, Louis, Locke and Pep per.
The team will leave Sydney at the end of this month and return on July 17.
Mrs. Davey, secretary of the All Aus tralia Women’s Hockey Association, will accompany the team as manageress The announcement of the team’s ar rangements was made in Sydney the day before Empire Day. The following day a correspondent in a letter to the editor of “The Sydney Morning Herald”, protested against the decision to send the team on a foreign ship to Fiji at the end of June, although a British ship is sailing a few days earlier, and asks: “Is this following the flag or is it where our pockets are touched that there is little loyalty?”