MCC also played the main provincial teams including Auckland (twice), Wellington, Canterbury and Otago.
Robert St Leger Fowler was invited but was unable to tour and was replaced by Brand.
[3] The doctor and former Australian Test player Roland Pope accompanied the team throughout Australia and New Zealand at his own expense, serving as honorary physician.
Bill Ferguson, who travelled with the team as baggage master, said MacLaren never made "even a token attempt to make the tour pay its way, being content first and foremost with his own requirements – and he had expensive tastes".
Ferguson said the MacLarens "frequently went away to Rotorua and such places for holidays", but he observed that their absences did not upset the rest of the team.