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Greymouth Evening Star, 19 February 1937, Page 8

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CARPENTERS’ DISPUTE. [BY CABLE —PBESB ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.] MELBOURNE, February IS. Trouble is threatened for the final Test match, because of a dispute with men employed on a new grandstand. A number of carpenters are claiming for lost time, when they were put off during the last Test. Their claim amounts to £57/6/-,. which the Victorian Cricket Association refuses to pay, contending that ‘it is entirely a matter for the contractor. The men’s union threatens to invite all unionists to boycott the final Test and to picket the ground. DUNEDIN POSTPONEMENT. DUNEDIN, February 19. There was no play, this morning, in the Plunket Shield match, Otago v. Canterbury. Both ground and wicket were very wet. An inspection will be made of the wicket at 1.45 p.m.

Technical v. Cobden at Cobden, at 1.30 p.m.—Davy, Parry (2), Knight. Kibble. Bellis, McLeod, Hunter, Tucker. Airns, Shannon, Lindsay. Runanga w. Cobden at Cobden, Sunday. Bus leaves, 1 p.m.—Grogan, Smithson, Watson, Timlin, Jenkinson, Dewar. Smith, Nicholson, Boddy, Williams, Hart. Marist A. v. United at Rec., Sunday: Greenwood, Tindale, Kerridge, Ryan, Bayley, Morris (2) Cullen, Bateman, Robinson, Sumpter. United v. Old Boys, Rec. to-morrow —Nightingale, Allen, Jarvis, Mann, Sandman, Swinburne, Fidler, O’Halloran, T. Hoyle, Tarling, Foster. United w Marist A at Rec., Sunday: —Coffey, Marshall (2) Mann, Swinburn, Nightingale, Malloy, Sandman, O’Halloran, A. Newton, Tarling, Foster (12th man). United Juniors v. Marist. Rec., No. 2:—Howes, Walker. Perrin, Peek, Heaton, Eckersley, Glen, A. Newton Taylor, Banks, Nott. The following is Marist B. team v. Kotuku on Sunday. Bus leaves P.O. at 12.30: Mathews, Griffen, Casey, Wilde, Clancy (2), Ryan, Pfahlert, Leopold. Mc-ates, Kirkpatrick, McGinley. The following is Marist Junior team v. United at Rec. No. 2:—Wilde, Pfahlert, Beams Robinson, Morris J., Ryan, Price. Meates, McGinley. Griffen, Dishington.