SPORTS AND GAMES
NEW ZEALANDERS IN BRITAIN LONDON, April 9. Flying Officer Eric Grant, captain of the R.N.Z.A.F. Rugby team, is □laying for Scotland in Services Rugby. Recently he appeared in a Scottish trial match. This season ,he takes the place in the centre of Captain W. H. Munro, of Glasgow, who is suffering 'from an injured knee. The" “Everting Standard’s” diarist says: Three of New Zealand’s test cricketers are now in Britain, Leading Aircraftman Ken James, Captain W. E. Merritt, and C. S. Dempster. So far as is now known, all three will be available for some matches this season. Dempster is organising Dominions Services cricket in Britain, a high-spot of which will be a two-day test match of sorts against England at Lord’s, beginning on August bank holiday. A daughter has just been born to Mrs James, a former New Zealand nurse, who was latterly working at the Dominion Army Pay Headquarters in London.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 10 April 1943, Page 3
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