TEST CRICKET

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22991, 19 March 1938, Page 20

TEST CRICKET

MATCHES AT LORD'S IMPROVEMENTS TO GROUND Cricket fans will bo better catered for during this year's test match against Australia at Lord's than they have ever been before, says an English writer. Scores of workmen are busy installing better accommodation and generally brightening up the famous cricket ground. This year's tests will seo a vastlyimproved Lord's, from the public point of view. The old canvas and wood luncheon arbours, which ran parallel with the wall of Wellington iioad, have disappeared for ever, in their place a fine steel and wood structure, with 54 permanent luncheon arbours, is being built. These arbours will be some distance from the wall bordering Wellington ltoad, and the space between will bo used as a ear park. Further improvements are in hand at the east gate. An old and what was considered generally inadequate building to the, left of tho turnstiles has been pulled down, and a more modern and larger' one has been built with a buffet at one side. At this gate also the turnstiles will be enlarged and improved. There are reports that tho Lord's Hotel will bo pulled down and reconstructed, but it is unlikely that this will bo done this vear, for tho details have not as yet been completed, nor has tho scheme generally boen approved.