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Managing hockey

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Managing hockey

Miss M. Wilkins (left) and Mrs E. Moore were co-managers of the New Zealand women’s hockey team which toured England and Scotland in 1953. They were described as ‘much stronger than expected … all the district teams chosen will find them strong opponents’. Of the 20 games they played, the New Zealanders won 16.

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Anne Else, Gender inequalities – Sport, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/28662/managing-hockey (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Anne Else, published 26 April 2011.