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KENT STILL MAKING CRICKET BATS Golf balls and e'ubs ,tennis halls and racquets, cricket balls and bats, hockey sticks and footballs are, tne main items among the £700,000 worth of sports goods sent out from Great Britain overseas last year. The biggest buyer is South Africa where cricket, Rugby and hockey are played everywhere. India, the Argentine, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ceylon, Elgypt, U.S.A., Chile, and the Far Eiast follow in that order. Canada takes 120,000 golf balls a year and 30,000 tennis balls; and the Dominion is a steady purchaser of tennis racquets. The United States buy thousands of pounds worth of golf balls and clubs. Australia and South Africa are the biggest customers for cricket bats. The making of English cricket bats and balls are both skilled handicrafts passed on from father to son The most famous cricket balls come from a group of craftsmen settled in Kent for generations. There is no truth at all in the canard that Nazi airmen have destroyed England's Store of bat willow. Stocks are safe and ample to meet the demand for war-time cricketers at home and overseas.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 124, 2 July 1941, Page 2
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