A representative of the Christchurch “Press,” who interviewed A. W. Roberts, the Canterbury and New Zealand representative cricketer, on his return to Ohistchurch, after fulfilling a professional engagement in the Lancashire League, was suprised to find that both Roberts and W. E. Merritt, another Canterbury cricketer playing in the League, had 'become “addicts”' to the sport of howls. The game is played in Lancashire on “crowned” rinks,, on which exceptional judgment is required to combine the bias of the bonds with the camber of the floor. Many large ' tournaments are held, the winners receiving as much as £IOO jin prize money. Roberts said that the good professionals in crown howls earned £2O a week.
The directors of Bycrofts, , Ltd., have-declared an interim dividend of lid* a share, payable on November 15. This is at the same , rate as was paid ■ last yean.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 12091, 2 November 1933, Page 7
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