All-Fiji Cricket Team

Now On Tour In NZ

THE 16 members of the Fijian repre sentative cricket team arrived in Auckland by air in mid-February.

The team is comprised of 12 Fijians and four Europeans. The Fijians will play in bare feet and white lava-lavas, it has been reported from Auckland.

The 1948 Tour

From a Special Correspondent

Suva, Jan. 3.

Arrangements are complete for the All-Fiji cricket team to make a tour of New Zealand. The team will leave Fiji in February and return six weeks later, after playing in the four major provinces, Auckland, Wellington, Canterbury and Otago, as well as in minor districts.

This is the third tour in Fiji cricket history. The first was organised by the Hon. Mr. J. S. Udal, Attorney General and MCC player, in 1895, following much the same itinerary as the 1948 team will follow. That side was half European and half-Fijian.

In 1908, a Fijian team from the island of Bau, toured Australia and met with much success.

The present tour has been organised by Mr. P. A. Snow, Administrative Officer of Fiji and former Leicestershire County cricketer. He is expected to lead the team. Other members of the team are likely to be Mr. D. L. Freeman, well known in New Zealand test cricket be fore he joined the CSR in Fiji; Ratu George Cakobau who is a successful bow ler and Ratu Edward Cakobau who played first class cricket for Auckland province when he was at school at Wan ganui College.

Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna, the most out standing Fijian of the present day, is President of the Fiji Cricket Association and a keen supporter of the game.