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[Reuters Telkoicams.l (Received this day at 11.2-3 a.i11.) ’BONBOX. Sept. 13. Lord Harris, speaking at the Marylebone Club's luncheon at. the Oval to the Marylehoue team going to Australia, said the public were entitled to know the lines upon which the team were selected. The .Marylehoue Committee chose the side because Marylebone pays the piper, and it is entitled to onII the tune. .Many amateurs and professionals with Australian excellence were consulted. 'I he fact that seventeen were .selected, was due to Ho-blw’ inability, for health reasons, to net-opt the first invitation. When later lie informed the Marylehoue Committee that lie was modi; ally advised that be could go. "o felt the Australian public would he disappointed, and the British public would not understand it. if be "as not included. Lord Harris emphatically contradicted the statement that the Marlebone committee was departing from pactise and was not finding passages for player’s wives in Hobbs’ case.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 September 1924, Page 3
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