Squash presidency for Christchurch man?

Press, 20 November 1981, Page 15

Squash presidency for Christchurch man?

By

TIM DUNBAR

A new president of the New Zealand Squash Rackets Association will be elected at the annual meeting in Rotorua today — and a Christchurch man could win the position for the first time. Mr Viv Hargreaves, a Christchurch bank officer, is standing on the strength of a vast background of administration at both the provincial and national level. The other candidate is Mr Bruce Davidson, a Wellington lawyer, who has been on the N.Z.S.R.A. management committee since 1979. The position has become vacant with the retirement of Mr Michael McCarthy, of Dunedin, who has been president for the last two years. Mr Davidson has been nominated by Wellington and Central, Mr Hargreaves by Northland and Canterbury. Mr Hargreaves has been on the management committee since 1970 and served as convener of the New Zealand selection panel for seven

years. He has been a vicepresident of the national body for the last year and is a former president of the Canterbury Squash Rackets Association. The High School Old Boys man is also a fine player, having won the North Island title in 1972, the New Zealand veterans' championship in 1979, and being runner-up in the same tournament this year. Mr Davidson is the president of the Wellington District Squash Rackets Association, having served as a prominent member of the Khandallah club’s committee for several years, and is also the convener of selectors for the Wellington district. He is an active inter-club player and a qualified national referee. History might or might not count in Mr Hargreaves’ fav-

our. Three of the last four presidents — Messrs Don Green, Michael Fenton, and McCarthy — were South Islanders with Mr Michael Sumpter (1974-76). of Auckland, the only one from the north. For the two positions of vice-president there are four candidates, among them Mr Doug Lawrie, the C.S.R.A. president. The others offering themselves for election are Mr Davidson, Mr Andrew Doig, of Palmerston North, and Mr Michael Greig, of Auckland. Both the national senior and junior selection panels will be returned unopposed for the first time in many years. The senior selectors are Messrs Murray Issacs (convener), of Ashburton, and Shane O’Dwyer, of Wellington, and Mrs Trish Lee, of Auckland,. while the junior panel comprises Mrs Colleen Owen (convener), of Auckland, and Messrs Peter Hagan, of Wellington, and John Heinz, of Christchurch.