CRICKET ELEVEN

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22726, 12 May 1937, Page 13

CRICKET ELEVEN

TEAM IN ENGLAND THREE SEATS IN ABBEY SPECIAL STAND PROVIDED [BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION*] WELLINGTON, Tuesday ' Although they have a match engagement to-morrow, the members of the New Zealand cricket team will be able to take part in the Coronation celebrations in London. Through the Prime Minister, Mr. M. J. Savage, special arrangements have been made on their behalf. The manager, Mr. T. C. Lowry, and Mrs. Lowry, and the captain, Mr. Page, it is stated, are to have seats in Westminster Abbey, and the other members of the team are to be accommodated on a special stand at a prominent point on the route of the procession. The opening of tho match against M.C.C. has been delayed until after the Coronation. IN THE CHURCHES THANKSGIVING SERVICES Services appropriate to Coronation Day will be held to-day in a number of Auckland churches. In St. Mary's Cathedral at 31 a.m. the special form of prayer and thanksgiving approved by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York will be used, and an outline of tho Coronation Service will be given by Archbishop Averill. Seats have been reserved for representatives of public bodies. A similar service is to be held in St. Matthew's Church at 9.45 a.m. The Auckland Hebrew Congregation will celebrate the Coronation at a service in the Synagogue at noon. SOUVENIR PROGRAMMES DISTRIBUTION BY BOY SCOUTS [BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION] WELLINGTON, Tuesday According to a request by the World Chief Scout, Lord Baden Powell, tho Wellington metropolitan hadquartcrs had the honour this afternoon of forwarding to tho Dominion Chief Scout, Lord Gahvay, an official souvenir programme of tho Coronation, llie conveying was carried out by King's Scout Wigston, of the Brooklyn group. He is tho senior King's Scout in the Wellington metropolitan area. Tho distribution of programmes is being done by the Boy Scouts as a national good turn. The whole of the proceedings are to go to the King George V. Jubilee 'lrust Fund.