VISIT OF NEW SOUTH WALES TEACHERS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 23 October 1907, Page 2

VISIT OF NEW SOUTH WALES TEACHERS.

X'er Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. An invitation was recently extended by the Wellington State school teachers to their confreres in New South Wales to pay a visit to New Zealand, and intimation has been received here that a party of about thirty will come to New Zealand in December, arriving about Christinas Day. Amongst their number will be representatives to the annual conference of the New Zealand Education Institute, which will be held at Auckland early in January. Included in the ranks of the party will be a number of cricket and tennis players, and during their sojourn in the Dominion, lasting about twenty-seven days, they will visit various places of interest and play a number of matches. The visitors will proceed from here to Wanganui remaining there a couple of days, during which time they will_go up the river and also play a cricket match. They then go to New Plymouth, and will try conclusions with residents there at either tennis or cricket. Auckland, Thames, Te Aroha, and' Rotorua will also be visited, the party leaving Auckland on their return on 20th January. The cricket team will meet the New Zealand teachers' combined team in Wellington, and an outside match will also take place. At Auckland they will try conclusions with the Auckland teachers' representatives and also the New Zealand teachers' representatives. The team will be a strong one, as some of the visitors have participated in firstclass cricket in Sydney, while others | have done well in country games. It is their custom during the vacation at Christmas to play matches against Victorian and Tasmanian teachers. Mr. Prank Muffer, M.A., who plays in flrsti class cricket for the Gordon Club, will probably 1)9 captain, while Mr. Lou Deer, who contributes school athletic news regularly to the Sydney Daily Telegraph, will be manager of the team.