P.O.W. "TEST"
“A USTRALIA” beat “Auckland” by 19 runs in a cricket match at Papakura Military Camp recently. But the match was not arranged by the cricket authorities of Australia and .New Zealand; it was the product of a dream of the prisoners in Camp 52 in Italy during World War 11. The participants were all former prisoners of war who had regarded cricket as their only real pastime during long periods behind barbed wire. The Australian players, who scored 155 to Auckland’s 136, were drawn from a party of 37 members of the New South Wales Ex-Prisoners’ Association who visited Auckland and Northland recently. The match was the fourth played between the two associations and the second in New Zealand.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31588, 27 January 1968, Page 11
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