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Dunsandel Cricket using the First Dunsandel Hall/Library 1890-1929 Part 3
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TitleDunsandel Cricket using the First Dunsandel Hall/Library 1890-1929 Part 3
DescriptionThere was a “fair” attendance at the 1890 AGM which was held in the Dunsandel Town Hall with Mr A. Irvine being voted to the chair.
After the election of officers the annual “social” to be held in the Dunsandel Hall was fixed for Friday, October 31 [20].
The club appeared to be functioning in February 1891 when a committee meeting was held in the Dunsandel Library [21] and it was agreed to hold a social evening on Friday, March 20th, in the Dunsandel Hall [22], on the same scale as the previous one, and to also arrange a match, Ladies v Gentlemen, on the day of the social.
A well-attended extraordinary general meeting [23] of the club was held in the library at the end of October 1891.
With George F. Wright presiding, the subscription was reduced from 5s to 2s 6d, and it was decided to elect six captains, to take a fortnight each, beginning on Nov. 3.
The following were elected Messrs D. Wright, E. Stanford, G. Hight, J. W. Lill, G. Sheat and N. Burgess.
It was resolved that practices be held on Tuesdays and Fridays, commencing at 5.30 p.m., on the domain; also, that in future the teams for outside matches be elected by ballot.
The Lincoln College challenge was accepted for December 5th at Lincoln.
No further mention of the club could be found in the newspapers until September 1893, when there was a report of a meeting [24] that was held in the Library to re-start a cricket club.
Fred Lill who was secretary for the previous club acted as secretary for the meeting.
A management committee was elected for the ensuing season and 14 members joined during the evening.
However, a note in the Press of September 1895 “There being no Cricket Club in Dunsandel, I hear of various of our men joining the Leeston, Southbridge, and Irwell Clubs, and I hope to hear good accounts of them during the coming season”, suggests that the 1893 attempt to get the club active did not succeed.
In November 1897 another meeting [25] was held to form a cricket club at Dunsandel.
The venue was the domain pavilion rather than the Hall, but those officers elected were names that were prominent in the past, Fred Lill, Thomas Irvine, C. A. Wright, and others.
Their first match was against Brookside.
From 1898 until 1915 a series of AGMs were held [26-42] and in nine of the cases it was specified that the meeting was held in the Library and in seven cases the venue was not recorded.
Meetings followed a pattern with the usual annual business of balance sheet, the election of officers, how many teams to enter into the competition, and opening day being decided.
Some meetings had a good attendance, others a poor attendance.
Some non-regular items recorded included the decision to lay an asphalt pitch in 1898 [43], the offer of prizes for best performance [44], a recommendation in 1911 to the Ellesmere Association that a two days’ match should be played in the future, and that the home team should have the choice of either batting or fielding [45].
During the evening of a progressive euchre party held in the hall in October 1912 [46], prizes and trophies won in the cricket, football and gun club competitions were presented. No other records of such combined prize presentations has been found in the newspapers.
At the 1915 meeting [47,48], the second year of WW1, after discussing cricket in Dunsandel as it was in the 1914 season, and as the outlook did not seem any brighter, it was decided to disband the club for this season.
Votes of thanks to the officers (some of whom have been in the club for a great number of years, and had left to take up the game of bowls) concluded the meeting.
On the 8th September 1925 it was reported that at the annual meeting of the Ellesmere Cricket Association, a hearty welcome to the Dunsandel delegates was extended by the president and at the 1926 annual meeting in August [49], the report on the year's work stated that after a lapse of ten years the club was re-formed last season, the membership totalling fifteen.
During the year a concert was given by the Ashburton Scottish Society in aid of the club's funds, and a profit of £7 4s was realised.
The club was grateful to those members who lent financial assistance at a critical time, to those who gave liberal cash donations and to the car drivers who conveyed the team to matches.
In 1898 and 1899 socials were held in the hall [50,51].
The first was a concert using local talent and the second a most successful dance again with music supplied by locals.
There was a very successful dance in 1912 held in the hall [52].
The Dunsandel Cricket Club was possibly one of the last clubs to hold their meeting in the first hall although the venue was not actually recorded [53].
They however continued playing [54] and activities after 1932 were recorded by Mackie [55] (1979).
Mike Noonan
Dunsandel Historic Society
Date1890-1929SourcePapers PastLocationDunsandel
DescriptionThere was a “fair” attendance at the 1890 AGM which was held in the Dunsandel Town Hall with Mr A. Irvine being voted to the chair. After the election of officers the annual “social” to be held in the Dunsandel Hall was fixed for Friday, October 31 [20].
The club appeared to be functioning in February 1891 when a committee meeting was held in the Dunsandel Library [21] and it was agreed to hold a social evening on Friday, March 20th, in the Dunsandel Hall [22], on the same scale as the previous one, and to also arrange a match, Ladies v Gentlemen, on the day of the social.
A well-attended extraordinary general meeting [23] of the club was held in the library at the end of October 1891.
With George F. Wright presiding, the subscription was reduced from 5s to 2s 6d, and it was decided to elect six captains, to take a fortnight each, beginning on Nov. 3.
The following were elected Messrs D. Wright, E. Stanford, G. Hight, J. W. Lill, G. Sheat and N. Burgess.
It was resolved that practices be held on Tuesdays and Fridays, commencing at 5.30 p.m., on the domain; also, that in future the teams for outside matches be elected by ballot.
The Lincoln College challenge was accepted for December 5th at Lincoln.
No further mention of the club could be found in the newspapers until September 1893, when there was a report of a meeting [24] that was held in the Library to re-start a cricket club.
Fred Lill who was secretary for the previous club acted as secretary for the meeting.
A management committee was elected for the ensuing season and 14 members joined during the evening.
However, a note in the Press of September 1895 “There being no Cricket Club in Dunsandel, I hear of various of our men joining the Leeston, Southbridge, and Irwell Clubs, and I hope to hear good accounts of them during the coming season”, suggests that the 1893 attempt to get the club active did not succeed.
In November 1897 another meeting [25] was held to form a cricket club at Dunsandel.
The venue was the domain pavilion rather than the Hall, but those officers elected were names that were prominent in the past, Fred Lill, Thomas Irvine, C. A. Wright, and others.
Their first match was against Brookside.
From 1898 until 1915 a series of AGMs were held [26-42] and in nine of the cases it was specified that the meeting was held in the Library and in seven cases the venue was not recorded.
Meetings followed a pattern with the usual annual business of balance sheet, the election of officers, how many teams to enter into the competition, and opening day being decided.
Some meetings had a good attendance, others a poor attendance.
Some non-regular items recorded included the decision to lay an asphalt pitch in 1898 [43], the offer of prizes for best performance [44], a recommendation in 1911 to the Ellesmere Association that a two days’ match should be played in the future, and that the home team should have the choice of either batting or fielding [45].
During the evening of a progressive euchre party held in the hall in October 1912 [46], prizes and trophies won in the cricket, football and gun club competitions were presented. No other records of such combined prize presentations has been found in the newspapers.
At the 1915 meeting [47,48], the second year of WW1, after discussing cricket in Dunsandel as it was in the 1914 season, and as the outlook did not seem any brighter, it was decided to disband the club for this season.
Votes of thanks to the officers (some of whom have been in the club for a great number of years, and had left to take up the game of bowls) concluded the meeting.
On the 8th September 1925 it was reported that at the annual meeting of the Ellesmere Cricket Association, a hearty welcome to the Dunsandel delegates was extended by the president and at the 1926 annual meeting in August [49], the report on the year's work stated that after a lapse of ten years the club was re-formed last season, the membership totalling fifteen.
During the year a concert was given by the Ashburton Scottish Society in aid of the club's funds, and a profit of £7 4s was realised.
The club was grateful to those members who lent financial assistance at a critical time, to those who gave liberal cash donations and to the car drivers who conveyed the team to matches.
In 1898 and 1899 socials were held in the hall [50,51].
The first was a concert using local talent and the second a most successful dance again with music supplied by locals.
There was a very successful dance in 1912 held in the hall [52].
The Dunsandel Cricket Club was possibly one of the last clubs to hold their meeting in the first hall although the venue was not actually recorded [53].
They however continued playing [54] and activities after 1932 were recorded by Mackie [55] (1979).
Mike Noonan
Dunsandel Historic Society
Date1890-1929SourcePapers PastLocationDunsandelConnections
CollectionThe Patrons of the First Dunsandel Hall/LibraryPlaceTe Atatiki a Te Wakaaro DunsandelOrganisationDunsandel Historic SocietyMore Information[20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40] <12-04b>[41][42][43][44][45][46][47[48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55]
PlaceTe Atatiki a Te Wakaaro DunsandelOrganisationDunsandel Historic SocietyMore Information[20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40] <12-04b>[41][42][43][44][45][46][47[48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55]Attribution
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