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'Catching the hockey bug', 1955

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'Catching the hockey bug', 1955

These boys at Wellington's Clyde Quay school have made or adapted sticks in order to try playing hockey in 1955. From 2011 Hockey New Zealand ran the Small Sticks programme to attract children aged four to 13 to play the game with the correct equipment. Hockey New Zealand has also formed a youth council, with eight primary and high school representatives, to liaise between schools and the national association.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1955/1689-F

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Geoff Watson, Hockey – Recent developments in hockey, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/38931/catching-the-hockey-bug-1955 (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Geoff Watson, i tāngia i te 3 December 2012, updated 1 January 2015.