THE KING’S MESSAGE.
TO AUSTRALIAN CRICKETERS. ANOTHER WELCOME FUNCTION. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received 1.15 p.m. to-day. LONDON, April 22. “I warmly welcome the team to the Mother Country and hope the visit, in every way, will be enjoyable. I trust I may see the play at Lords during the season,” said the King in a- message to the Australian and New Zealand clubs’ luncheon to the Australian cricketers. Major-General Sir James Newton Moore, in proposing the toast of the team said that so long as the Empire was able to play cricket in the best sense of the word, there need be up fear of the bogey of revolution. Lord Harris, in supporting the toast said he could only say he knew the Auglo-Australian teams of 1925 were very even and h© believed they were more even in 1926. “The matches finished will probably he Avon by one of those bits of fortune that make cricket so enjoyable,” he added. Collins, replying, appealed for the support of his hearers as Anzacs. Ho hoped the boys \\ r ould justify England’s welcome, playing the game in the true spirit. Mr. Smith declared that he Avas only frightened that' England’s wonderful kindness might kill them. The Australians had AA-on 47 tests and England 41. He Avould b© content if they finished the tour Avith fifty to Australia’s credit. —Aus. and N.Z. Assn.
The -weaklier was cold and dull after more' rain and the ground ah Lords is saturated. There was no practice today.—"Reuter.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 23 April 1926, Page 7
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