MR. DONNELLY RETIRES

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 263, 5 November 1937, Page 14

MR. DONNELLY RETIRES

FINE SERVICE TO GAME. TEN TEARS N.Z. CHAIRMAN. I»RKSKNTAHON ARRAN'CI".D. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) ( HRIST( HI'RCH, Thursday. (Ircat regret was expressed at the biennial conference of delegates to the annual meeting of the New Zealand Cricket Council at the announcement that Mr. A. T. Donnelly had decided to retire from the management committee.

Mr. Donnelly has been chairman for the past ten years, and ha* been on the committee since he was 21 years old.

Mr. <'. Bell, the Wellington delegate, said that his association had circularised the other associations, and it had been decided to give Mr. Donnelly a present from the cricketers of the Dominion in acknowledgment of his greut services to the game. The present would be a tall, standing clock.

Mr. Donnelly said that he was retiring liecause he considered that the position of chairman of the management committee was one that should change hands. He had been more than repaid for his time and trouble by the, good progress that the game had made in the Dominion. He was grateful for the way that the cither meniliers of the committee had worked with him, also to the officers of the association and the minor associations. His knowledge and eontacts with (teople overseas would alwaVH lie available to his successors.

Mr. Donnelly, who is a King's Counsel, last year declined appointment to the Supreme Court Bench, but retained office as Crown Prosecutor at Christchurch. He is chairman of directors of the Hank of New Zealand.

In 1031, after re ."using to accept the managership of the New Zealand cricket team to Kngland, he subsequently went to the Old Country at hi* own exiieil sc. mid, along with Mr. Arthur Sims (the ISO!), 11*05 and 1010 N'ew Zealand international). represented the Dominion at the Imperial Cricket Conference at Kennington Oval on July 20 of that ve«r. He went to Australia in 1033 to meet D. R; .lardinc's victorious Kiirli-dimrn, and Accompanied them throughout their Dominion tour.