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Walter Pearless
Walter Hugh Pearless (28 March 1879 – 29 December 1940) was an Australian-born doctor and cricketer who played first-class cricket for Otago cricket team, Otago during the 1904–05 season. Pearless was born at Gippsland in Victoria (state), Victoria in 1879 but educated at Nelson College in Nelson, New Zealand.McCarron A (2010) ''New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010'', p. 105. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Available onlineat the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2023-06-05.) He played club cricket for Nelson College before moving to play for Wakefeld Cricket Club, a club that he remained involved with throughout much of his life. He played matches for the Nelson cricket team, including against a Lord Hawke's XI cricket team in Australia and New Zealand in 1902–03, touring English side led by Lord Hawke in 1902–03, and later in his life acted as a selector for the Nelson Hawke Cup side. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gippsland
Gippsland is a rural region that makes up the southeastern part of Victoria, Australia, mostly comprising the coastal plains to the rainward (southern) side of the Victorian Alps (the southernmost section of the Great Dividing Range). It covers an elongated area of located further east of the Shire of Cardinia (Melbourne's outermost southeastern suburbs) between Dandenong Ranges and Mornington Peninsula, and is bounded to the north by the mountain ranges and plateaus/highlands of the High Country (which separate it from Hume region in Victoria's northeast), to the southwest by the Western Port Bay, to the south and east by the Bass Strait and the Tasman Sea, and to the east and northeast by the Black-Allan Line (the easternmost section of the Victoria/New South Wales state border). The Gippsland region is generally divided by the Strzelecki Ranges and tributaries of the Gippsland Lakes into five statistical sub-regions — namely the West Gippsland, South Gippsland, Latro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
