Top Ski Official Moves To Auckland

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30856, 15 September 1965, Page 15

Top Ski Official Moves To Auckland

T?EW, if any, have contributed as much to Canterbury ski-ing during the last 15 years as A. C. Rattray, who recently left the South Island to enter a legal practice in Auckland. Rattray was a top-line racer before becoming a Canterbury selector. He was also an experienced race official, being one of the few experts on the F.I.S. points table in Canterbury. Aged 38, Rattray first donned a pair of skis in 1949 after completing a de-

Free in law at the University of Canterbury. He joined the Canterbury Mountaineering Club at Craigiebum and was a foundation member of the Craigieburn Valley Ski Club. His progress in the sport *

was rapid and in 1955 he was South Island combined champion. He was second in the New Zealand giant slalom in 1961, his last competitive year. He is one of the few New Zealanders to hold a T.I. test badge. But it was as a club administrator for the Christchurch Ski Club that Rattray will be remembered. Not only was he president, club captain and committee

member for- many years, but he coped with the small tasks of day-to-day administration on the field for several years. The Christchurch Ski Club could not possibly be in such a strong position today with its facilities if he had not been prepared to sacrifice so many week-ends. No-one in sport is irreplaceable, but Rattray must have come as near this position as is humanly possible.