Players Impressed By English Gear
(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, Sept. 24. The members of the New Zealand cricket team, which returned to Auckland today, were particularly impressed with the standard of playing gear in England, and seemed to have brought back reasonable stocks for the coming season. N. S. Harford was particularly taken with the steel-sprung bats used by many county players. The newspapers had been pretty fair at the start of the tour, said H. B. Cave, the vice-captain and a 1949 tourist. Later in the tour, some of them got rather bad, and there were plenty of the “yellow” variety, he said.
Harford quashed a rumour that he might be transferring to the Hutt district from Palmerston North. He was not sure whether he still had his job in Palmerston, said Harford, but he was thinking of trying the sports goods business there.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28700, 25 September 1958, Page 6
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146Players Impressed By English Gear Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28700, 25 September 1958, Page 6
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