CROQUET

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22765, 18 July 1939, Page 4

CROQUET

CANTERBURY ASSOCIATION officers euectep for year Satisfaction at the interest shown by the various clubs in the season’s activities was expressed at the twenty-sixth annual meeting of the Canterbury Croquet Association by the president (Mr A. G. Ross). The balance-sheet showed a satisfactory increase in assets. The election of officers resultedPrest* dent, Mr A. G. Ross; vice-presidents, Mas. dames J. Beanland; G. Smithson. R. Moore, and Miss B. Gerard, Messrs G. Richardson, S. McCullough, H. A. Penn, and P. Grant; secretary and treasurer, Mrs J. P. Maddren; referee, Mr A. G. Ross; auditor, Mr M. Sommerville; gazette correspondent. Mr A. C. Murray; handicapper. Mrs J. P, Maddren; tournament Mesdgmes Beanland, Bull. Gordon, and Miss McMillan, Messrs G. Richardson, H. A. Penn, A. C. Murray, and H. Nettleton; tournament manager, Mrs Maddren; as-sistant-manager. Mr G, Riehardgon. . It was decided to begin the iU"ipr tournament on January 20 and the open on February 6, and to include an intermediate championship event in the programme. „ ■ _ , It was reported that the New Zealand Croquet Council had arranged for English and Australian croquet teams to visit New Zealand during the centennial celebrations, arid exhibition games would be played m Christchurch on January 25 and 20,