PLUNKET SHIELD MATCH

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 41, 18 February 1930, Page 13

PLUNKET SHIELD MATCH

POSTPONEMENT XGREED SW)

One of the matters for consideration in making arrangements for tho fourth Test match, which, as mentioned in yesterday's "Post," the M.C.C. has offered the New Zealand Cricket Council, was tho Plunket Shield match between Wellington and Auckland, set down to commence at the Basin Beserve on Friday. At the conference held in Auckland yesterday, Gilligan, tho English captain, said he would agree to a fourth Test to be played in Auckland next Friday, "iturday, and Monday, if the necessary ararngements could be made. The Management Committee of the Wellington Cricket Association, when it met last evening, had before it a telegram from Mr. D. Beese, advising that Auckland would agree to a postponement of tbo Plunket Shield match nntil a later date, and asking whether Wellington would assist and agree. After very little discussion, the Wellington Committee decided to fall in with tho suggestion made by Mr. Beese. In moving that Wellington should agree to the postponement of the Plunket Shield match, Mr. J. 8. Hanna said that the Cricket Council, through no fault of its own, appeared to have got into some difficulty, and he thought th' committee should co-operate with the council.

The chairman (Mr. P. B. Broad) said there was a probability almost amounting to a certainty that Dempster and James would not be able to get leave to play again. Consequently the "gate" in Wellington would be affected, but he was not saying that by, way of oppoßing the motion. The motion was edrried, and it was I suggested that tbo dates for the Auck-land-Wellington match be the 7th, Bth, 10th, and jlth. March,