RAIN PREVENTS PLAY
CRICKET TEST MATCH BEGINNING TO-DAY # (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, 'this day. • Rain prevented play in the cricket test match between Sir Julien Cahn's team and the New Zealand XI at' Basin Reserve yesterday. At 1.30 p.m. it was decided to make a start at. 2.15 if no further rain fell. The gates were opened and a few hundred people filed on to the ground. A heavy shower fell about 2.10 and increased to a downpolr about 3.15 p.m. At 4 p.m. play was called ox! for the day. Play will start at 11.30 a.m. to-day if the weather permits.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19885, 11 March 1939, Page 10
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