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The 1902 Ladies' Hockey Tournament, held in Wellington, inspired this full-page cartoon. About 1,000 people wearing streamers in team colours are said to have attended one game between Wellington and 'visitors'. A reporter stated that 'whatever idea may have existed ... that ladies' hockey was another of the species of "afternoon tea outings" must have been entirely dispelled by the just-concluded ladies' tournament'.
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National Library of New Zealand, Papers Past
Reference: New Zealand Free Lance, 6 September 1902, p. 16
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