Wellington Railway Cricket Club.

The surviving spirit of sport, its ability to live through hard times and retain vigour and freshness, is well exemplified in the Wellington Railway Cricket Club, which this year commences its thirty-fifth season.

Started away back in the old Manawatu Railway days (in 1897) it has entered teams for Wellington championship contests each year since, with the exception of one war year, and it has, on occasion, occupied honourably high positions on the competition ladder.

The fact of continuity for so long a period is remarkable when it is remembered that membership is drawn from all ranks of the service—a service in which “transfers” are a matter of course and a “settled” job is rare indeed; where “Saturday afternoon off” is the privilege of comparatively few; where “shifts” have to be worked by large numbers, and where many of the staff spend much of their lives at places far removed from the happy leather-hunting grounds of cricket.

This year the Club, which is entering two teams (including one for the Junior Championship) will make a determined effort to top the grade, and asks for the help and interest of their fellow railwaymen in making the season a successful one for the club. The secretary, Mr. C. W. Vennimore (c/o Stores Controller, Head Office) will be glad to enrol new members.