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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 716, 15 January 1910, Page 5

Previous, to the', departure,' for Sydney', yesterday of the New South AVales;teacliers' "cricket team, the,visitors' availed 'themselves iof aji of presenting" : Slr." Jos. Fanning,' who .jnade, tho southern tour' With tho..'. party,, with'/ an. - albuin: of ■views,.of tho tour" mode;by tho team two years,.ago, . and'-a -case of'pipes.,' -The' gathering, which' comprised the whole-..'of the ■■■ visiting > -teamif and' : four,' ladies, also ,Major.-' If' Donald and .Mr.", John 'O'Shea, city solicitor, -spent a■■ pleasant; half-hour in speech-making,; led. by Mr.' E. .Deer,; manager for the tourists. ; The visitors expressed a, desire, that ; a, New. -Zealand teachers'.:team should visit Australia next Christmas,' and-it is almost certain, that a tour will be arranged, 20; namosi.pf; personswilling to make tho. trip l being. aU ready in hand. -Opportunity, was also: taken by the visiting -partjvto/'present their manager, Mr., L. Deer,'witha'shaving outfit. Meritorious porformanoessbn, and. off the field during tho tour were also .rewarded.. ' Mr .'.'A. 'T. ;A]lmah, .who, 'secured U wicket? -for.ll runs/at;Queenstown and did tho hat-trick, and;who also' took over 50 wickets duriug the tour,,was presented with-a' hat.--Messrs.'Eoso-and' Q. Donoghuq were .each presented with, a pipe for haying 'won'bridge tournoys, and Mr.-Hose was also presented; with- , the score-book of.th'o first match of the tour,in which he made 150 runs, the highest individual, score ■of the-tour.'. The visitors werein true holiday form : when the .boat was leaving; the'.wharf,;- and; .sent ! chorus after chorus across the water .as the ship, backed off." ■ ■■:,:■!■'■ ;...,:.;.