New Zealand - Cricket - Feilding Agricultural High School - 1st XI - 1961 Photo Courtesy of Owen Shannon Do you have more information about the school or the people in this photo? Please use the comment section below to share. To search for other photos from this school, please type the schools name in to our search engine. Feilding High School - The school was originally named the Feilding Technical High School and subsequently became known as the Feilding Agricultural High School - The school's foundation stone was laid on 7 February 1921 by the then Minister for Education the Honourable James Parr. - In 2000 the school had its name changed to FAHS Feilding High School. Cricket in New Zealand - The beginnings of cricket in New Zealand See also: History of cricket in New Zealand to 1890 - The Reverend Henry Williams provided history with the first report of a game of cricket in New Zealand when he wrote in his diary in December 1832 about boys in and around Paihia on Horotutu Beach playing cricket. - In 1835, Charles Darwin and HMS Beagle called into the Bay of Islands on its epic circumnavigation of the Earth and Darwin witnessed a game of cricket played by freed Māori slaves and the son of a missionary at Waimate North. Darwin in The Voyage of the Beagle wrote: several young men redeemed by the missionaires from slavery were employed on the farm. - In the evening I saw a party of them at cricket. - The first recorded game of cricket in New Zealand took place in Wellington in December 1842. - The Wellington Spectator reports a game on 28 December 1842 played by a "Red" team and a "Blue" team from the Wellington Club. - The first fully recorded match was reported by the Examiner in Nelson between the Surveyors and Nelson in March 1844. - The first team to tour New Zealand was Parr's all England XI in 1863–64. Between 1864 and 1914, 22 foreign teams toured NZ. - England sent 6 teams, Australia 15 and Fiji 1... (Reference; Wikipedia)