IN SOUTH OF ENGLAND.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20025, 5 September 1930, Page 11

IN SOUTH OF ENGLAND.

THE AUSTRALIANS* TOUR.

MATCH AT FOLKESTONE,

(UNITED PEERS ASSOCIATION —Vf KLECTBIC TELKGEAPH —COPVBI3HT.)

LONDON, September 3,

In tho match, Australia v. South of England, which was commenced at Folkestone, the captain of the homo team, Chapman, had been chosen before his omission from the fifth Test.

Wyatt and Hearne scored slowly, but Liter dealt confidently with Grimmett, whc injured a finger. At lunch the score was 0 for 76. Every bowler had been tried

In tho first over after the adjournment Hearne flicked one from Wall and was caught. Hammond livened the scoring, and the side's 100 appeared after 135 minutes. The second wicket fell at 108, when Wyatt, after a patient 100 minutes, in which he hit five fours, was caught at the wicket.

The Australian bowling was rarely dangerous, suffering from &taleness, and the fielding was. below standard. At tea the total was two for 148. Two wickets fell in quick succession. Langridge went out to a good- catch by Jackson and Hammond trod on his wicket. He batted for 120 minutes and hit five fours Chapman began brilliantly, scoring three fours in one over frorr YVall. He continued to slam the bowling in all directions, and rattled up 40 in 35 minutes, including nine fours. Ames was also attractive. (Received September sth, 1.30 a.m.) LONDON, September 4. The match was continued in deligh'.ful weather. A'Beckett, with a beautiful ball, knocked out RobertsonGlasgow's leg stump, but Ames and Tate scored freely, the latter hitting with his usual abandon. iScores SOUTH OF ENGLAND. First Innings. R. E. S. Wyatt, c Oldfield, b Hornibrook ... ... ... 51 J. \V. Hearne, c a'Beckett, b Wall 33 W. R. Hammond, hit wkt. b Wall 54 J. Lairrridge, c Jackson, b a'Beckett ... ... ... 23 L. Ames, not out .. .. 102 A. P. F. Chapman, c Ponsford, b a'Beckett ... ... ... 40 R. C. Robertson-Glasgow, b a 'Beckett .. .. 2 M. W. Tate, not out ~ .. 50 Extras .. .. 15

Total for seven wickets .. 370 HOBBS TO VISIT INDIA. (Received September sth, 1.30 a.m.) LONDON, September 4. Jack Hobbs, accompanied by his wife, is sailing for India in October, for three months, as the guests of the Maharajah Kumar, cf Vizianagram. He welcomed the rest after a trying cricket season.

phasises, that it will be possible so to reduce the demand on Lake Coleridge as to tide over the critical period which is not only very near but certain to occur unless cither the load is reduced or the present drought breaks up. Present indications unfortunately show no signs of a break, and the only remedy is drastic reduction of load. The Department, in issuing this second warning and urgent request for load reduction, can do no more, and it is now for supply authorities and onsumers generally either to reduce their demand now with little inconvenience or to be faced with a situation when the Lake Coleridge plant cannot, by any manner of means, meet the demand upon it. Letter to Council. The following letter was received yesterday from Mr K. G. Mac Gibbon by the Municipal Electricity Department: "Referring to our interview yesterday morning regarding the critical situation arising out of the shortage of water at Lake Coleridge, where you stated it was considered advisable that the Department make some definite statement to the City Council as, to what steps should be taken to effect a reduction in the demand, such an action, as pointed out by me, was not considered in my province, nor do 1 still consider it to be so. The critical nature of the situation was placed before you in two separate communications. It was naturally assumed that your department would take what steps it considered necessary to meet the emergency. The directions in which reduction of load could readily bo carried out without hardship were so obvious that it was not thought necessary to indicate them.

MI would, however, earnestly point out that if drastic reductions are not made immediately in all possible directions, the Department cannot hope to carry on supply under present loading conditions for more than the next two weeks unless conditions regarding water supply at Lake Coleridge improve considerably. "The impression given by the Press regarding matters being easier owing to a slight rise in the lake level is one which I wish emphatically to combat. Conditions to-day are not easier except that the critical period has been put forward a matter of two days. "If, therefore, drastic economy is not effected immediately, the City will be faced shortly with what will be virtually a complete shut down." To avoid,this catastrophe the Department urged that the load be reduced in the manner which has been adopted by the Council.