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Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2298, 17 November 1925, Page 7

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[By Electric Cable—Copyright.] [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association-] (Received Monday 11.5 p.m) SYDNEY, November 16. West Australia, in the second innings, scored 211 runs (Bryant 32, Ilenfrey, not out, 30). New South Wales thus won by an innings and 234 runs. NOMADS AND N.Z. TEAM. There was no meeting of the Manawatu Cricket Association last evening no business having arisen necessitating the calling together of the executive. The Nomads this year will tour Hawke’s Bay and East Coast starting at Christmas, the order of matches will be: Wairoa, Poverty Bay, Hastings, Lowry’s XI and Southern Hawke’s Bay. There is a persistent rumour that, if E. H. L. Berneau is unable to accept an invitation to join the New Zealand cricket team to Australia, R. Hope (Manawatu) will be the sole representative of the minor, associations. Tom Lowry’s choice-docs not find favour in Palmerston North, and Is a grave injustice to players like Berneau and Hope. The objection is based on the fact that Lowry wag not selected In the original fourteen. This' shows that the New Zealand selectors were not enamoured of the principle of capping a man who has not played for a New Zealand side for several years. He was formerly an Auckland representative before going. home to Cambridge. Lowry, otherwise, must have been first choice There was a controversy over the very same thing a couple of seasons back when B. J, Kortlang, then knocking the Plunket Shield bowlers about, was passed over for the New Zealand eleven to meet C. G, Macartney’s New;. South Welshmen., V