Cricketer’s papers stolen

Press, 25 October 1984, Page 1

Cricketer’s papers stolen

NZPA special correspondent Harare Jammed into a rubbish bin somewhere in central Africa is an envelope containing the bachelor of laws examination papers for Ervin McSweeney, the New Zealand wicket-keeper. That is believed to be the fate of the envelope, which was in a suitcase belonging to. the young New Zealand cricket team’s manager, Mr

Ken Deas, and stolen last Thursday from a trolley at Harare Airport as the team was returning from a trip to the remote north-west of Zimbabwe. The papers were entrusted to Mr Deas by the Victoria University Council. But in spite of the theft, McSweeney was still to have sat the examination today. The University Council

and the New Zealand cricket authorities were to have telexed the papers to Harare on Tuesday. They were then to be held by a Harare law firm, whose senior partner, Mr Alwyn Pichanick, is president of the Zimbabwe Cricket Union. However, Mr Pichanick was still awaiting them yesterday morning. This morning, while the rest of the team tours a

private game farm in eastern Zimbabwe, McSweeney plans to sit his examination at the Harare offices of Messrs Vinterton, Holmes and Hill, 14,000 km away from his home campus. His next examination paper will be posted to the team’s hotel in Sydney, to await McSweeney on his return trip. The team will leave Harare on Sunday evening.