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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIV, Issue 21029, 6 May 1938, Page 6

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VISIT OF SIR JULIEN CAHN'S TEAM By Telegraph—Press association CHRISTCHURCH. May 5. Tentative arrangements in connection with the visit to the Dominion next season of Sir Julien Cahn's team were discussed by delegates at the meeting of the New Zealand Cricket Council. The side is expected to be here in February and March, of 1939, and to play matches over a period of six weeks. The chairman, Mr D. E. Wanklyn, said that negotiations had been in progress with Sir Julien Cahn, and the Management Committee had recently submitted an alternative itinerary to that originally proposed. Travelling in New Zealand was usually arduous. and Sir Julien did not wish his team to be over-worked. As the opening fixture he had suggested a match against a New Zealand schoolboy eleven, and the committee thought that an excellent idea. It would give leading schoolboys experience against players nearly in the world class. Games agains 1 the associations would follow. The itinerary would extent over approximately six weeks, but in the short time available, added Mr Wanklyn. there would not be an opportunity to play all of the minor associations. In that connection it must be remembered that the New Zealand Council could not enforce its own views. The team was a private one, coming almost entirely at Sir Julien Cahn’s own expense. Tire burden on the New Zealand Council would be very very little.