Cricketing Pressmen Given Rough Deal
(3 p.m-.)
SYDNEY, This Day.
Four English pressmen, including the former test wicketkeeper, George Duckworth, were off-loaded at the last minute from the flyingboat that carried the British cricketers to New Zealand today. The men expressed bitter anger when, instead of travelling with the team, they had to wave them goodbye when the plane took off at 7 a.m.
“This is hard to beat,” said Vivian Jenkins, of News of the World. “It is scandalous to get people out of bed at 4.30 a.m. and get them to the Hying base, and then tell them that they are not travelling.” George Duckworth was very annoyed. He said: “It is the toughest thing I have ever known, being offloaded at the last minute.”
The four pressmen were put off to enable extra mail to be taken to New Zealand. They will miss the first day’s play in the England v. Wellington match on Monday, even if they get seats on the flyingboat leaving on Monday morning.
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Northern Advocate, 8 March 1947, Page 8
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