CRICKET CONTROL

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11661, 27 October 1923, Page 7

CRICKET CONTROL

MEETING OF N.Z. COMMITTEE RULES AMENDED. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, October 28. In some remarks at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Cricket Committee to-night, Mr E. Henthcote Williams (president) said: The council had learned experience by the recent M.O.C. tour, and might have saved at least £IOOO bv the curtailment of overhead expenses. He regretted the breakdown of negotiations with tho Australian Hoard of Control, but tlie management committee had arranged a visit of a team from New South Wales. He hoped the incoming committee would arrange that the New South Wales team would no-t he over-strong, and that the majority of the players would he young, and on the fringe of the top rank. It was a financial impossibility to consider sending a New Zealand team to Australia and England in the very near future. Mr Williams suggested the institution of honorary membership of the council at a fee of, say, five guineas. There were, he said, hundreds of men in New Zealand who would support sneli a proposal, and it would be « good source of revenue. PLUNKET SiHEILD MATCHES. The meeting amended the rule governing the Plunlset Shield and interprovincial matches to make it read in accordance with the M.C.O. laws of cricket, with the exception that the wickets may he watered for twenty minutes instead of ten. The Plunket Shield rules were altered to provide that all matches shall be arranged so that at least one match in each season shall be played on the ground of each competing team in the following season, and where one match was played two shall be played. Sir Francis Bell’s services to cricket were highly eulogised, and he was elected a life member of the council.