REPLY BY CRICKET BOARD

Hawera Star, Volume LI, 23 May 1932, Page 5

REPLY BY CRICKET BOARD

SUGGESTIONS OF DISCOURTESY “FULL OF INACCURACIES. ’-’ (United Cress Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) MELBOURNE, May 22. Dr Robertson, chairman of the Aiistralian Board of Cricket Control, declares that the London ‘‘NewsChroniclo’s” report of the M.C.O. s negotiations with the Australian board regarding the extension of the English team’s tour to New Zealand is so full of inaccuracies that it would take a week to explain them, and he was. too busy to .spend that time. He declined to five an outline of what happened on the” occasion of the visit of the New Zealand representative to indicate whether there was a. likelihood of an alteration in the itinerry. Dr. Robertson said he had not heard suggestions that the return match at Perth should be omitted.

Claiming to reveal exclusively the truth of the M.C.O. match negotiations with the Australian Board of Control regarding the New Zealand tour, the “News-Chronicle” declared the hoard strongly objected to an extension of the Marylebone team’s tour, to New Zealand, the hoard considering New Zealand should make its own arrangements. “New Zealand sent a representative to Australia,” the “New-Chronicle” added, “where he was.most rudely received. the board giving him only, a few minutes to state his case and informing him a decision had been made rind the representative could read tbeir statement in. the newspapers. Meanwhile the English counties decided that Marylebone’s original, request ■should be unaltered, Australia being politelv told that if it could not agree there might be some question of cancelling tbe tour. “Subsequently the board of control saw r its mistake. Tbe fact tbat Marylebone was able to fulfil a programme in Australia and New Zealand Is. regarded as a triumph of tact and diplomacy.”