MR DONNELLY'S RETIREMENT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23341, 5 November 1937, Page 13

MR DONNELLY'S RETIREMENT

FINE SERVICES RECOGNISED (Special to Daily Times) CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 4. "It was with great regret that the Wellington Cricket Association learned 1 , that Mr A. T. Donnelly had decided to retire from the Management Com-' mittee of the New Zealand Cricket' Council," said Mr C. Bell, the Wellington delegate, at the biennial conference of delegates to the annual meeting of the New Zealand Cricket Council. "Mr Donnelly," he said, "has", been on this committee since he 21 years old, and has been chairman ? for the last 10 years." Mr Bell said' that the Wellington* Association had circularised other as J sociations, and it had been unanimously and spontaneously decided to give Mr Donnelly a present from the cricketers of the Dominion as a token of their respect for him and as an acknowledgement of what he had done, for cricket in the Dominion. They had decided to give him a tall standing" clock. Mr Donnelly said that he was retiring as he thought that the position of chairman of the Management Committee was one which should ohange hands. What time and trouble he had put into the game had been more than repaid by the very good nrogress the game had made in New Zealand. Hewas very grateful to the other members of the committee for the way they had worked harmoniously with, him and also to the officers of associations and minor associations. His knowledge and contacts with-persons* overseas would always be available to his successors.