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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 244, 15 October 1931, Page 11

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TO SELECT TEAMS COMMITTEE OF THBZE K. C. JAMES INCLUDED The efforts of the Management Committee of the Wellington Cricket Association to decide into whose hands the selection of this year’s representative teams should be entrusted, came to an end on Monday evening, when it was decided to appoint the following committee of three: Messrs W. A. Aldersley (chairman), L. T. Cobcroft, and K. C. James. The matter was held over from last week when notice of motion to rescind the motion passed at the previous week’s meeting, whereby a committee was to replace the sole selector, was given by Mr W. A. Duncan. At the suggestion of the chairman, P. B. Broad, it was decided to hold the discussion in committee, and, after a lengthy debate, the decision reached was announced. The three men appointed need little introduction to the Wellington cricketing public. Mr Aldersley is well known as a valuable performer with both bat and ball in the Hutt senior eleven, and as a member of the Management Committee. Mr Cobcroft has had a lengthy association with the game in both Australia, where he played in Victoria, and New Zealand. He is one of the Dominion’s leading umpires, and has done valuable work in the Hutt Valley coaching Petone and Hutt players of both senior and junior status, with much of his time spent among the schoolboys. Air James is probably the youngest selector Wellington has yet had, but despite his comparative youth, has been a member of Wellington and New Zealand representative teams for a good number of years, his ability as a wicket-keeper earning him a reputation which is by no means confined to this country. Last season he was captain of the Wellington College Old Boys’ team.