Squash election

Press, 1 March 1984, Page 8

Squash election

The management committee of the Canterbury Squash Rackets Association will meet this evening to elect a president after the recent annual meeting failed to find any takers for the post. Mr Warren Collins, of the Sumner club, would have been elected unopposed as president, but the commitments of a new job led to him withdrawing his nomination just before the meeting. In the two weeks since the annual meeting Mr lan Thomas has stayed on as interim president and he is confident that he will be able to step aside this evening. Mr Thomas is tied up this year in his new role as a vice-presi-dent of the New Zealand Squash Rackets Association. At the annual meeting the Canterbury association acquired its second and third life members, Mr Doug Lawrie,

who moved to Timaru last year, and Mr Les Milne. Both nave had a long involvement in Canterbury squash and Mr Milne has now stepped down as a Canterbury selector after 15 years. In 1983 Mr Viv Hargreaves became the first life member of the association. Officers elected were.— Vice-presidents: Tony Gemmill (Lancaster Park), Peter Hutchinson (Sumner). Committee: Mike Pratt (Mount Pleasant), Alan Dunlop (Suburbs), Len Beattie (Christchurch Football), John Heinz (Linwood), Len Reese (Christchurch), Kathy Pepper (Suburbs). . The senior represenative selectors will be Lyn Sparks (Marist) and Merle Holland (Sumner) with Bruce Marriott (Sumner), Fred Williams (Christchurch), and Fay Harley (Linwood) on the junior selection panel.