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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12245, 19 June 1909, Page 5

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P n ??°?£ D VISIT 0F SO^TH AFRICAN AND AUSTRALIAN TEAMS.

(Per Press Association.)

| CHRISTCHURCH, June 18. A meeting of the managing committee of the New Zealand C.icket Counci: was held yesterday. The secretary said he had received a letter from the south African Cricket Association relaying to his invitation for the South ioV^i 1 t team to V"H* Australia in ijxu-U to play a series of matches in -New The letter thanked the council icr the invitation, which was much appreciated, but nothing definite Had been arranged between the Association and tlio Australian Board of nY oI '". inference to the visit of the toouth African team to Australia, and the matter had been left for discussion at the triangular conference to bo held at Lords this summer. The South African Association would be glad if tho New Zealand Association would allow the invitation to stand over till after the conference, when it would be g Tad to entertain negotiations for a visit to New Zealand.

A letter <was a?so received from the secretary of the Australian Board or Control, stating; that it would be possible to arrange for a visit of a second eleven from Australia to New Zealand next season if dates were agrerd upon to enable the team to return home by the beginning of December. It was rcolvrd to ask the Board of Control if it would-b.» possib'e to arrange the proposed visit to start at the beginnio; cf December, freturnins to Australia about the second week in January.

It.was decided *>lso to ask the affi'iat'cd Association* to assist-to finance +hoi tour of the Australian teim in Now Zealand next feas"n on lines similar to those on which the Marylebone visit was carried out.