ALL BLACK MANAGER

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 49, 25 January 1935, Page 12

ALL BLACK MANAGER

MR MEREDITH SELECTED. Per Press Association. AA’ELLINGTON, Jan. 24. The appointment of Air V. R. Meredith, of Auckland, as manager of the New Zealand Rugby football team to tour Great Britain this year was announced by the New Zealand Rugby Union to-night. A special meeting of the management committee was held tonight, when there was a full attendance of members. The proceedings were taken in committee and the announcement that Air Meredith had been appointed following a ballot was made subsequently by the chairman (Mr S. S. Dean). All? AIEREDITH’S CAREER. Air Aleredith, the senior partner of the firm of Aleredith, Hubble and Meredith, and Crown solicitor in Auckland, was born in AA 7 hangnrei. He was educated at the Onehunga primary school and the Auckland Grammar School at both of which he won scholarships. He commenced legal practice in AA’cllington in partnership with Air R. AL AVatson, formerly Chief Justice of Samoa. and now a magistrate at Feilding. Subsequently Mr Meredith was Crown solicitor in AVellington for three years before going to Auckland, where he was appointed Crown solicitor in 1921. He also represented the New Zealand Government before the Royal Commission at Samoa in 1927. As a footballer Air Meredith played half-back for the AA’ellington representative team. After settling in Auckland he became selector to the Auckland Rugby Union, and produced teams which held an excellent record over a long period of years. He then retired from the position, but last season was persuaded once again to take an active interest in the game. He was appointed a New Zealand selector and again selected and coached the Auckland representative fifteen, which lifted the Ranfurly Shield from Hawke’s Bay at Napier on September 8 last. Air Aleredith in his professional capacity as Crown Prosecutor at Auckland had made a reputation in his handling of numerous Supreme Court criminal cases, several of which have been murder trials. He is an accomplished speaker in public, is unfailingly courteous, and is unhurried in demeanour. He is a man who, when he makes a speech, invariably has something worth-while to say.