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A LITERARY SCOLD.

OLD COUNTRY ANU CRICKET.; FLANNELLED FOOLS AND COAL. [ WILL ENGLAND BE SERIOUS. (By Cable. —I'ress Association. —Copyright.) (Received _ p.m.) LONDON, June 11. A curious editorial in the ''Daily Herald" imagines the historian of the future writing: "At a crisis in the I national history, when there were two j and a-half million people unemployed, I tlic chief interest of the population of I England, according to most newspapers ■of the period, was a cricket match. "The merits of the players representing England and Australia were everywhere discussed. "The most elaborate arrangements were made for reporting the match. Every other topic was overlooked, and it would be supposed the nation was never more prosperous or more untroubled." | The editorial proceeds to say it is no I use to lament the hold cricket lias on j the public imagination. What we have ! got to do is to train up a generation that , will not be prevented by pleasant things 'like cricket from attending the things that really matter.—(A. and N.Z.)

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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 138, 12 June 1926, Page 9

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A LITERARY SCOLD. Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 138, 12 June 1926, Page 9

A LITERARY SCOLD. Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 138, 12 June 1926, Page 9

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