NOVEL CRICKET MATCH
POLICE PLAY CONVICTS Members of the Melbourne police wireless patrol, with their leader, SubInspector J. R. Knott, recently paid a picnic visit to the penal settlement on French Island and played a cricket match against a team of prisoners. It was a single innings match, which French Island won by 17 runs. The home team and the visitors then adjourned for community singing and an impromptu concert.
The visit was a gesture to dispel any feeling on French Island that the police cherish grudges against offenders, who are expiating past crimes. There may have been some diffidence when the visitors arrived, but at the end of the day the prisoners carried the policemen's luncheon hampers down to the jetty and waved them a friendly good-bye.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22585, 25 November 1936, Page 11
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