Management game to N.Z. team

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33706, 2 December 1974, Page 18

Management game to N.Z. team

(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, December 1. “Rum Towers,” the team of five Ministry of Works engineers from Turangi which won the New Zealand National Management Game, 1974, has won the first Pan-Pacific ' management contest to be held in Sydney.

The contest, conducted yesterday at the International Computers, Ltd. centre in Sydney, brought together teams from Malaysia (P.A. Management Consultants), Australia (Australian Wire Industries) and New Zealand

to determine the Pan-Pacific champion. The contest was jointly sponsored by I.C.L. and the “'Australian Financial Review.” The New Zealanders, who led from the second period and were never subsequently headed travelled to the event

The New Zealanders, who led from the second period and were never subsequently headed, travelled to the event as part of their reward for winning the national final at Rotorua in October. Last year, a similar team—also from the Ministry of Works at Turangi—carried off the tronhy in a Tasman test match in Sydney.

Competition on Saturday involved three teams in a business skill battle involving their own and their opponents’ markets with a common fourth market. “Rum Towers” consists of Messrs A. M. Matthews (chairman), J. R. Boulton (al member of the 1973 Tasman test match-winning team), T. Shears. R. Redmayne and D. Jull.

The national management game is conducted jointly by ‘‘New Zealand Herald Business News,” the New Zealand Society of Accountants, and International Computers (New Zealand), Ltd.