CRICKET.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 309, 23 September 1908, Page 9

CRICKET.

PAKEHA CLUB The annual meeting of the Pakeha Cricket Club was held last evening, there being present a fair attendance of members. The report and balance-sheet were adopted. It was dccidcd to enter a team for the senior division of tho Wednesday competition. The following officers were elected President, Mr. C. Smith; vice-prcsidcnts, Messrs. Horace and Aubrey Smith;, captain, Mr. J. M'Eldowney; vice-captain, Mr. :J. Duthie; lion, secretary, Mr. G. B. Gregory; delegates to tho Wednesday Cricket Association, Messrs. Duthie and Manning; committee, captain, vice-captain, secretary, and Messrs. Kucli and Carruthers. The first general meeting of tho Eelburne Cricket Club was hold in the Kelburno Bowling Green pavilion oil Saturday night. The following officers were elected Captain, N. Jameson; vicc-cjiptain, B. dc Castro; secretary and treasurer, L Jameson; selection committee, W. Salmond, K. Pegg, K. Salniond, A. Pegg, and N. Jameson.

Mr. T. M. Wilford, M.P;, chairman of tho Harbour .Board, is well satisfied with tho agreement made between that body and tho Miramar Borough Council in respect of tiie proposed works at Miramar. To a Dominion representative ho stated that there had been great opposition to the Empowering Bill, based principally on the betterment clause.. Ho thought, that tho agreement now reachcd was a fair solution of what threatened once to be an insuperable difficulty. The betterment principle of tho Bill had'not been surrendered, for the payment of £5000 and dedication of certain land by tho Miramar Borough Council, in return for works to bo constructed by tho Board, was tantamount to betterment. The four acres, and a half given by the council would some day have a high value as warehouse sites., Tli'o cost of improving tho wharf would be, roughly, £12,000, and the expense of removing spoil, levelling the four acres and a half, and forming streets, would, be at least as much. Asked whether the agreement made tho board responsible for a* reclamation scheme, Mr. Wilford stated that the answer to that question would depend upon the form in which tho Bill was finally 'approved by Parliament.