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M.C.C. tour to New Zealand 1946/47. Official menu for the ‘Complimentary Dinner’ given by the New Zealand Cricket Council for the M.C.C. touring party, held at Winter Garden, Christchurch, 24th March 1947 during the only Test match played on the New Zealand leg of the tour. The small folding menu with N.Z.C.C. emblem, M.C.C. colours and printed title to front, menu and toast list to inside. The front cover features to the top right corner a hand drawn self-portrait caricature in ink of and by Arthur Mailey, signed beside by Mailey. Also nicely signed in ink by a further eighteen attendees including the eleven members of the England team playing in the Test match in progress. England players’ signatures are Fishlock, Ikin, Voce, Bedser, Edrich, Smith, Evans, Hammond, Yardley, Compton, Wright, Washbrook and Pollard. VG