THE CRICKET COUNCIL

Evening Star, Issue 16664, 21 February 1918, Page 2

THE CRICKET COUNCIL

f Special to the ' Star. 'J _ OHRISTOHUROH, February 21. Inquiries are being made as to' when the New Zealand Cricket Council are going to hold their annual meeting. The council was formed in 1894, and up to. a very recent date was one of the foremost of the sporting controls in the. Dominion. \ Speaking to a reporter yesterday morning, one who has in the past been a veryactive worker in cricket circles said it seemed a great pity that this body, so prominent m years gone by, should seemingly bo dying a natural death. He pointed out that the Rugby Union and other sporting bodies still hold their annual meetings although the war is on, and it was a thousand pities if a council such as that of the New Zealand Cricket Association, which has done no end of good by an-ang-ing for foreign teams to visit the Dominion, could not meet for a few minutes and adopt ari annual report of some kind, instead of allowing the perpetration of what in the years to come will be looked upon as a deplorable and irreparable break in the record of the game in New Zealand. This should, 'be done, he said, if all the members of the executive have not gone to the front. "Ave they," he queried in conclusion, "waiting for the headquarters of the council to be removed to the men of Wellington, who are very eager to run the cricket of New Zealand from the Empire City?"