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ALARM OVER ENCROACHMENT
Difficulties experienced in arranging satisfactory grounds and the annoyance and upset to clubs through the necessity of having to transfer games to inferior grounds are a subject t of comment in the annual report of the Wellington Cricket Association, which, in expressing thanks to those clubs mostly concerned for their co-operation and forbearance, states that the position, for the coming season should be better now that the Hutt Recreation Ground is once more available. All cricketers and the cricketing public, the report states, will view with alarm, the encroachment of other "interests" on the Basin Reserve on Saturdays during the cricket season. In the interests of the ground at the Basin Reserve, the playing was curtailed at tho end of the season to enable very necessary top-dressing and sowing to be done. The committee is hoping that, with the co-operation of the football interests, this top-dressing will be of benefit in the coming season. In the past football has been played on this ground too late in the spring to give the ground a real chance bef ore_ cricket commences. It must be borne in mind that Wellington's cricket season nearly always commences after Christchurch and Auckland—their grounds being available earlier.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 57, 5 September 1934, Page 11
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 57, 5 September 1934, Page 11
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