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Kaikoura Star, Volume LXX, Issue 10, 6 February 1950, Page 2

The Kaikoura St. Patrick's Sports Association’s sports meeting will be held at Messrs Harris Bros.' paddock on Saturday, March 4. Entries close on Friday, February 17, *at IT p.m. “The announcement of the Australian cricket team to tour New Zealand brought forth more than the usual amount of criticism. It was considered of sufficient importance for one of tho Sydney papers to devote an editorial to the subject. In some quarters it is claimed that ‘name players’ are necessary to make a financial success ot the tour, while others contend that it should have been uspd to build up a future Australian Test team. A few place so little importance on the tour that they consider that certain players could have been given the trip for services*’ rendered’. And many sav that is exactly what has happened! ” Phis is the introduction to a special review of the Australian team, which begins its tour of New Zealand mid-way through this month, appearing in “AllSports Monthly,” the popular new pocket-sized sporting review which brings to its rapidly growing army of readers till the current happenings in the New Zealand sporting world. A team of the finest sportscombine to make this profusely illustrated authoritative journal one of the most fsought-after ‘in tho .counting It is Australasia’s only allsporting digest, and contains something tor all sportsmen. The February i s i sue features a complete commentary and statistical review of the season’s Plimket Shield cricket, pen-pictures of each member of the Australian touring side, the latest in speedway, athletic” bowls, tennis, yachting, boxing, wrestling, rowing, and swimming. 1