League life membership

Press, 8 March 1978, Page 18

League life membership

An outstanding contribution made to rugby league administration in Canterbury will be recognised this evening when Mr Dave Gaynor is nominated for life membership at the league’s annual Mr Gaynor retired in September as the code’s secretary-manager — a position he had filled for seven years, after having been secretary and treasurer since 1963 — and is now living on the West Coast. Although Mr Gaynor’s association with rugby league extends back to his schoolboy playing days with Woolston in 1935, his term of off-the-field service began when he became a club official just after World War 11. Before joining the Canterbury senior board of control, Mr Gaynor assisted in the formation of the school boy control board. The chairman of the Canterbury Rugby League (Mr Jim Anderson) pays tribute to Mr Gaynor’s work in his annual report. “Those of us who have served on the board for so many years with him will miss his cheerful approach to any task, and will always admire his steadfastness and his absolute loyalty to the game, its players and its officials.”