GLOWING RECORD

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 121, 18 November 1936, Page 9

GLOWING RECORD

RUGBY ADMINISTRATOR

MR. J. N. MILLARD'S SERVICE

Many years of fine service to Rugbyfootball have placed Mr. J. N. Miilard, principal of the Hutt Valley High School, in the position of being recognised as not only one of Ruby's soundest administrators, but also one of the game's keenest judges of play and players. For the past twenty-one years he has been a member of the Wellington Rugby Union's management committee, and this distinction in the matter of service is not being allowed to pass unrecognised by members of the committee. As a selector, too, his record is an outstanding one, Wellington's achievements in representative matches during the time that he was selecting the teams being particularly good, and the New Zealand University teams chosen by him also giving a great account of themselves.

In a letter received at last night's meeting of the Wellington Rugby Union's management committee Major T. J. King (a member of the committee, who is now on a visit to Australia) wrote: "I very much regret being absent from the final meeting o," the year, and the informal social evening later on. I regard this year's informal function as particularly important synchronising, as it does, with the completion, on the part of Mr. Millard, of 21 years' service on the committee. Lots of nice things will be said about Mr. Millard that evening, and I am satisfied that they will all be deserved. In so far as his services are concerned, it has very defin-

itely been a case of quality as well as quantity. I should like to be associated most fully with the good wishes and congratulations which will undoubtedly be extended to him."