Skating

To raise funds for the Otago Tournament, the Women's Hockey Club held on Thursday evening, June 20th, a successful and enjoyable skating party. At 10 p.m. despite the boisterous weather, over 100 lads and lasses queued up inside the familiar Winter Show Buildings.

While some expert skaters executed intricate and alarming manoeuvres in the middle of the floor. Others, Including "Salient," clung to the railings in a frantic and sometimes vain effort to maintain their balance.

The highlight of the evening, an exhibition hockey match, was distinguished more for individual brilliance than for solid team work To the accompaniment of cheers and jeers from the sideline, Wallis's unusual and entertaining tacties, allied to the brute force of his team-mates, gave men the victory by 3 goals to nil, Although they could not penetrate the solid defence of Johnson at back. Women displayed sounder combination and superior ability to remain upright for any length of time.

Snakes, trios, Streamer skates, Monte Carlos proceeded until 12.30. when most people completed a strenuous evening's entertainment by walking wearily the odd miles home.

The Women's Hockey club is to be congratulated on capitalising the current skating rage so as to combine a substantial financial profit with a happy party for its friends and sun-porters.