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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16938, 12 January 1923, Page 7

Complete estimates of the current season’s lambing, computed from estimated average percentages, furnished by inspectors of stock in the various districts, are published in the December issue of the Abstract of Statistics. The estimated average percentage of lambing in the North Island was 90.36. and in the South Island. 82.53; the Dominion average being 86.77. The figures have already slowly increased from 1919, when the IX) min ion average was 77.02. The actual number of lambs tailed in 1922 in the North Island was 5,457.(343. compared with 4,810.258 in the South (slnml ; while in 1919 the figures were 5,120.000 and 4,326.385 respectively. “ Can the stumps be reinstated after a match has been declared to be won and the discovery made, on perusal of the score-book, that the necessary runs have not been obtained-'” This question came under the notice of the Wellington Cricket Association’s management committee in Ihe form of an application from the Umpires' Association for a ruling regarding the procedure adopted in a. recent junior A grade match When stumps had been drawn it was found that another run was necessary for victory. Ii was stated that one of the umpires was present- when'the discover}' was mad#, but objected to reinstating the stumps. The teams thereupon decided to resume. and the necessary scoring stroke was made. The committee decided to ask the two captains to submit a state- ‘ nient of the facts of the case.