BERTHING MASTER TO RETIRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 143, 20 June 1939, Page 6

BERTHING MASTER TO RETIRE

( MR. J. 11. HAYHOW. WANGANUI piORE THAN YI.ARS’ SIJiVHI "I ill lIARttOI K BOARD ! M I'- J H. Hiy how . hm ; m master al the Town Wharf. Wan?, nui, after more than .”>0 year.vice on the staff of the HaiG ■ Board, is to retire on July 3. ' Al its meeting yesterday the .. u granted him three months' Icauabsence on full pay a- from ' i I Mr. Hayhov joined the serviie ■> [the hoard in 1908. He was launG man to begin with and. 16 year- a become berthing master at th' T" Wharf. To the public he is proha best known a a cricket ■■ ' [He was associated with the mana ment of the game in Manawatu later, in Wanganui he became ■■ I relary of the Wanganui Cricket A sociation. holding office for 16 y*.> In that capacity ho became a iu ’ i cricket statistician, applying hi.- 1 cuts to watching the progress of u [game not only in New Zealand, i" [abroad. He kept records coveiii.. ! lours in which New Zealand, Engi land Australian cricket teams part pated. Ho is scorer for the Unit" Cricket Club, Wanganui, a posit u - he has hold for many years. i Mr. Hayhow, during the tim< 'was in the Manawatu district, forn [the first cricket umpires' association ithe Dominion. Associated with hi. ;in that project were Mr. D. W. Holland, father of Mr. C. Holland, tl [well-known Wanganui cricketer. M IF. Holland, a brother, and the late M G. W. Harden, who was afterwarcj manager of ihe Bank of New Soul i Wales in Wanganui. Mr. Hollan !senior, is still in Wanganui. j The hoard has not decided wha' [it will do to fill Mr. Hayhow's posi lion. A recommendation from ihe ! combined works and finance comi mittees was made yesterday, that th- : service’ - of taking and letting go of ■ vessel lines al ihe Town Wharf b discontinued, and that the shippit companies be notified so that they < make necessary arrangements w I the Waterside Workers’ Union for ■ carrying on of the work. J Mr. J. Millward moved an am*' ment. that, the matter be referred ' 1 [a committee, consisting of the ch - r[man of the hoard <Mr. N. G. Armstrong), Mr. W. J. Rogers, and M I Millward, to go into and report ; • to the board. “The hoard has been providing ' • service at Ihe Town Wharf,” 1 the chairman, "and I understood th*' it was merely the tying up and ting go of vessels. It appears th?.' the berthing master has more to ’ than that and arranges the berth.' n; these vessels and other matters that sort.. The committee can '"■• into the matter and report back."