N.Z. CRICKET TEAM
AUCKLANDERS FAREWELLED.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, March 11
"I am pleased I will be a fellow-pas-senger of members of the New Zealand cricket team on the way to England," said the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage), speaking at a farewell to the five Auckland members of the New Zealand team to visit England. He wished the team every success, and said it could rely on his fullest assistance.
Referring to his own, trip to England, Mr. Savage said: "If I am stumped I will borrow off the cricketers."
The Prime Minister said that .with shorter working hours and more time for recreation cricketers could be sure the game would not suffer from neglect. "The trail to England has been blazed by two previous New Zealand elevens, and I am sure that the present team will fully uphold the fine reputation made by the previous teams," said Mr. W. R. Fee, chairman of the Auckland Cricket Association, in congratulating the players who had been chosen for the tour. He was not forgetting the many fine exponents who had been unfortunate to miss selection.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 60, 12 March 1937, Page 11
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