VISIT FROM ENGLISH CRICKET TEAM.
PROJECT FAVOURED BY MAJORITY OF ASSOCIATIONS. (Ey Telegraph—Press Association). CHRISTCHURCH. This Day. “We can’t always have visits from Australian teams, however much we might like to have them,” said Mr J. F. Peake, secretary of the New Zealand Cricket Association this morning, in commenting on the attitude of the Waixarapa Association towards the proposed visit of the English team to the Dominion in 1929-30. Mr Peake said that New Zealand was in honour bound to bring the English team to the Dominion as a return for the New Zealand team’s tour of England. Mr Arthur Sims was acting on behalf of the Cricket Council in London. Of 23 associations in the Dominion, the great majority had replied to the Council that they were favourable to the tour, only the Otago and Manawatu Associations having raised objections. The Council was going to have some say in the personnel of the leam, and the Associations could fee! assured that it 'would ‘consist of first-class players who would be a good draw. English players now in the would probably bo wanted for inclusion hi the New Zealand teams.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 September 1928, Page 5
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