NEW ZEALAND’S CRICKET TEAM

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 19 February 1931, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND’S CRICKET TEAM

PRESS AND COUNCIL PROTEST RESOLUTION (By Telegraph.—Press Association) ROTORUA, 18th February. The I New Zealand Press Association ■directorate passed the following resolution: “The directorate, having considered the’ refusal of the Cricket Council to giVe’’ official recognition to. a representa?„,_. live’o£ the Dominion press on the occasion'of the tour of the New Zealand cricket; team abroad, resolves that the public ; are entitled to the fullest information about the doings of the team, in view of the financial support that has been given the council and in the best interests of the game. The refusal of the council to accord full facilities to a press representative has made proper reporting of the tour impossible. The association, in the public interest, emphatically iprotests against the arbitrary and unjustifiable action of the council.”

PRESS ASSOCIATION AND COUNCIL CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. '“I was surprised to read the resolution of the Press Association directorate, as the Council lias been negotiating with the Association’s manager in Wellington about press arrangements for the tour,” said Mr Donnelly, chairman of the New Zealand Cricket Council, when asked for comments on the protest made by the directors of the Press Association regarding the attitude of the Council to press arrangements for the forthcoming tour of England. “The important question at the moment,” he added, “is not whether a press man should go with the team, but whether there will be a team for the press man to go with. The Council has always appreciated and been very grateful for the publicity given to the game by the press of the Dominion and if a touring team goes satisfactory arrangements will be made with the Press Association.”