TOUR CANCELLED .
ENGLISH WOMEN CRICKETERS
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, September 22. The New Zealand and Australian tour of the English women's cricket team, planned to take place in February next year as part of the Centennial i celebrations, has been cancelled be- j cause of the international situation. ! | The secretary of the New Zealand Women's Cricket Council has received 1 the following cablegram from the Eng- j lish women's association: "Regret international conditions make tour impossibility. Trust it is pleasure deferred, but our country needs us." Three matches were to have been played in New Zealand —a Test against the New Zealand team in Wellington, against the North Island, in Auckland, and against the South Island in Christchurch.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 73, 23 September 1939, Page 10
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