CRICKET

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 16, 14 October 1926, Page 17

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y FINANCING ENGLISH TOUR COMPANY’S PROSPECTUS ISSUED Dominion Special. Christchurch, October 13. The prospectus and articles of association of New Zealand Cricket, Ltd., the company which is to be formed to finance tlie tour of the New Zealand cricket team to England next year, have now been completed, and will be issued in the course’ of a few days. The capital of the company is to be £lO,OOO, divided into £1 shares. Ten shillings on each share will be paid on application, and the remaining 10s. may be called up in ss. calls at intervals of not less than one calendar month. The directors are not to receive any remuneration, and before they can proceed to allotment, 3000 shares must be subscribed. The directors of the company, each of whom has taken fifty shares, are : Daniel Reese (Christchurch), merchant; Frederick Earl (Auckland), barrister ; Sir Francis Henry Dillon. Bell (Wellington). barrister; Louis Joseph Joel (Dunedin), accountant; John Stephen Barnett (Christchurch), barrister'; William Hinnels Winsor (Christchurch), building contractor; Ernest Robson Caygill (Christchurch), sharebroker; Arthur Telford Donnelly (Christchurch), barrister; and Henry Morgan Taylor (Christchurch), company manager. The secretaries of the company are Messrs. J. F. Peake and A. E. Byrne, 194 Hereford Street. Christchurch. The members of the Stock Exchanges of New Zealand have generously offered' to forgo their brokerage on any shares placed by them “It is hoped, therefore,” states the prospectus, “that there will be thus no brokerage to be paid by the company, bnt the company reserves the right to pay a commission at the rate of 5 per cent, to anv person who may secure subscriptions for shares.” After stressing the value that Australian cricket has received from the sending of teams to England, the foreword to the prospectus states: •‘New Zealand has been wonderfully enterprising in the matter of bringing foreign teams to the Dominion, for, commencing in 1864, with Parr’s English there have been 25 visits of foreign teams to this country, making an average of one team everv two and a half years. Practically all the great Australian players since 1878 have been seen in New Zealand, while England, too, has sent manv of her most noted players. . Canterbury sent a team to Victoria in 1878, but outside that, and the three Dominion sides of 1899. 1913, and 1925, no teams have gone abroad.” Dealing with the programme, the prospectus states that 16 matches against first-class counties the uni-

versifies, and an M.C.C. team, as well as a short tour of Scotland and Wales, have been arranged. It would be seen that the New Zealand cricketers, plaving continuously from the middle of ’May until the first week in September, would get as much cricket during that time as some of them would get in a lifetime in the interprovincial cricket of New Zealand. SOUTH AUSTRALIA'S VISIT RICHARDSON & GRIMMETT TO BE ASKED Dominion Special. Christchurch, October 13. With reference to the invitation which the New Zealand Cricket Council extended to South Australia to send a team to New Zealand this season, the Adelaide authorities have asked the council to await a definite leply until the beginning of November, as they wish to get in touch with the South Australian members of the. Australian teain. It is hoped that Grimmett and Arthur Richardson will be able to make the trip. SELECTORS OF TOURING TFIIAM. Dominion Special. Dunedin, October 13. A letter from the New Zealand Cricket Council advising receipt if a notice, of motion from Auckland that, a selection committee of three be appointed for the New Zealand team, each teing representative of a major association, was discussed by the Otapo Cricket Council tonight. The question of appointing the best men, irrespective of the association to which they belonged, was raised, and it was agreed that that was the best plan. The rotation of representation was condemned, and it was decided to instruct the association’s delegates to ’ ot.e against it. A sub-committee was set up to assist in promoting the company to finance the New Zealand team s English tour.