Arthur Poole (cricketer, born 1878)

Arthur Valentine Poole (28 April 1878 – 11 April 1955) was a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Southland from the 1914–15 season until 1920–21.

A middle-order batsman and occasional bowler, Arthur Poole played in six of the eight matches Southland played in their brief period as a first-class team. He made their highest-ever score, 77 in the first innings against Otago in 1914–15, as well as top-scoring with 38 in the second innings. In the first innings he hit two sixes and 11 fours and reached his 50 in 40 minutes. He also top-scored for Southland in their last first-class match, against the touring Australians in 1920–21.

Poole's matches for Southland in non-first-class cricket extended from the match against Lord Hawke's XI in 1902–03 to the match against the touring Australians in 1927–28 just before he turned 50.

Poole was a timber merchant and managed a sawmilling company. He married Ella Maude Sheppard at St John's Church in Invercargill on 12 November 1902.