WOT A FINANCIAL SUCCESS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 78, 28 September 1907, Page 4

WOT A FINANCIAL SUCCESS.

MARYLEBONE TEAM'S TOUR. THE COMMITTEE'S REPORT. Tho comnulteo which controlled the tonr of tho Marylobono Cricket Club through tho colony, in presenting its repot t, stated that it rs.jivttod that I.bo tour was not a financial success. The programme comprised sixteen matches, including two teat matches against Neir Zealand representative teams, and tho total Tficeipts from nIL the matches amounted to £11579 9s 9d, and from sundry sources £90 7s 4d, making an aggregate nmounfc of £1669 17a Id, a sum far short of tho least sanguine expectations of tha committee. When tho tour was projected, it 'was confidently hoped that tho Now Zealand 'international Exhibition, which was being held in Chrislchurch during tho progress of tho tour, would laTgely conduco %p its financial success, but 30 'far as the matches played in Christchurch wero concerned, s it appe.irad to have had a contrary effect, liut, v.'hilst the Exhibition acted detri-lnc-utally upon the matcLes played in ! Clirisfoburch, it could not be held responsible for the unsatisfactory results di'docd by the ttr.lenients of receipts and expeti clitv.ro for the mil-lies played in tho other centres of the colony. P.evisuing tho whole tour, -the first match playad against Wellington could alone be considered to liayo been a. financial success. Ths total &;iardnUe3 leosivad fiorn the council and tho afDlititpd associations amounted to £2850, making the total receipt?. J&ISI9 17s Id. whilst thetotal expeudituia upon tho tour amounted to £2619 193 Id. There vas a balance in hnnd of £1399 103, which tho committed rccoramonded should bs ] lafundfid to the gucrantqrc in tho pro- j ],ortion of their lespectrve guarantees. A few items ouly of tho statemsnt of J accounts appeared to call for sp«Hal I comment. 'J he itc-m £102 33a for the sei vices of Mr. Moss as umpire, although an unusual item of expenditure, was un- j avoidable owin^ to tho fact that in tho initiation of thu tour the Mfliylebor.3 j Club made an oD^.igenicnt of then* own,! umpire a "sino qua non." Tho ""VVanjrar.ui River Trip," £60 15s, whiht permitting the visiting team to sen some of Iho sonuc beauties of the colony, added little to the travelling expenses incidental j to tho tour. 'Ah 6 saino lemsik, though in a lessor de'trree, applied to tho item, ! '•West Coast Trip," JJIC4 11s 6J, whilst \ fie item, "Rotoru.-i Trip, £43 ]Bs, lejTCsoiitDcl expenditure -which would, have l>'.'n iucuircd ulaiort to i;n equal amount h'ul tho tear.s itmaiuctl in AucMind. j Tho itom, "Washing ;m.l Tips," £^!8 3s ' 3d, 'was one which tho committee ie- j Ci'ettcd should appe.'ir in the ftiHomrnt of expend iture, hni in deference, to tho ; lefjuest of tin inHiiflntinl deputiiion to i tho committee, consislin? of Messrs. | H. D. lioll, president of the Wellington Ciicket Association, Uonthcote Williams, of Napier, nndi C. 15. Do Trafford, the captain of the visifcinp team, the committee consented to allow tha cxpendituie, more particularly «s the- dbputatioii stated that tho visitors wero distinctly informed before leaving England that they would incur no peJßonul expense whatever during tho progiese of the tour.

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