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Hokitika Guardian, 22 February 1923, Page 3

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AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. EIGHT HOURS’ PROCESSION. SYDNEY, Feb. 2. Speakin-r at the winding up meeting of the Bathurst Labor Day Celebration Committee. Mr A. P. Crow (president), said that the Eight Hours’ Day processions were becoming a screaming farce, and the question of abolishing them'ought to be considered. The processions held in Bathurst for some tin:..' past bad not been a credit to the unionists. The displays had convoyed Hie opposite idea to that intended, being merely advertisements for the employers. 'He thought that baud contests were to be preferred. Other members of the committee aLo took a similar view. M ACI. VILEN'S CiMTH Nil SYDNEY. Fob. 21 Mac-laren states that the New Zealand tour of the M.C.C. team was a financial failure. There were too many provincial matches, entailing mucu expenditure of time, energy and money in travelling, which names were seldom warranted. Mnclaren said that at .*- -- son some New Zealand players baldly knew the handle from Hie blade ol the bat. He complained that a iiiiimher of minor newspapers attacked Ins team, and also local players. I m--c attacks he attributed to the ignorance of the writers, who, he said, were unacquainted with cricket. Maolnren added that while in New Zealand he rarelv read the reports of the matches as they were not worth reading. He si,-.-.-nested that the standard of the game in tin* Dominion would ho rnisi.M the public interest aroused by toe <wsnatch of a team to England, to play a series of matches against the weaker counties. Madaren concluded by eulogising the treatment received from olbcinls and players.