CRICKET.
WILLOW BLIGHT. LONDON, Thursday. The opening of the 1931 season has revealed a remarkable position in the cricket bat industry, due to the ravages of the watermark disease, which is a bacterial affection causing the death of willow trees worth £2OO or £3OO each. The willow-growing country is practically confined to Hertfordshire and Suffolk. Experiments in growing cricket willows elsewhere have been without result, the bats having no drive. The demand is as great as ever, and unless the blight is stopped the position promises to become most difficult. MATCH POSTPONED. The match between the United juniors and the High School ’teams has been postponed.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 10 April 1931, Page 5
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106CRICKET. Wairarapa Daily Times, 10 April 1931, Page 5
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