Gisborne Photo News
Home

×

30

Sportsmen's Dinner

Once again the Crippled Children Society benefitted handsomely from the annual Sportsmen's Dinner held to raise funds for the society. The Sportsman of the Year Trophy, donated by Leopard Breweries, was awarded to ace polo player David Kirkpatrick, captain of the Poverty Bay Team and a member of the New Zealand team. The Round Table Sports Administrator Award was presented to Jim Burton for his services to Archery. The talks and stories of top national sportsmen Graeme Lawrence (motor racing), Phil Skoglund (bowls) and Colin Meads (rugby) were also highlights of the evening.

×

David Kirkpatrick (left) receives the Sportsman of the Year Trophy from Leopard's Gisborne manager Paul Sceats.

×

Round Table president Mark Johnson (left) hands over the Sports Administrator Award to Jim Burton.

×

Crippled Children Society president John Hawksworth with the guest speakers who are

×

Colin Meads.

×

Phil Skoglund.

×

Graeme Lawrence.

×

31

×

A large crowd of local sporting types attended the very enjoyable function and among them were Robin Foster, Bruce Ball, Hugh Bramwell, John Fisher, Russ Wilcox and Clinton Wilcox

×

Jim Bradnock and Bob Foote

×

Mark Pickett, Paul Gibson, Hamish Graham, Julian Spencer and Maurice Denham

×

Brian Costello, Evan Higgins and Len Choveaux

×

Kevin Lovelock, Gordon Fraser and Ian Moore

×

Ross and Keith Craill

×

Frank Zame, Peter Zame, Ian Hawkes and Les Hawkes

×

32

Also present at the Sportsmen's dinner are

×

Merv McFarlane, Hank Nyenhuis and Clive White.

×

Trevor Stuart, Jim Carroll and Gavin McFarlane.

×

Bob Stevens, Ray Gorringe, Hugh MeLeod, Tom Walters and Mick Proudfoot.

×

Andy Pritchard, Clarrie Free and Ron Pritchard.

×

The A.B.C. Motors crew of Graham Craill, George Matthewson, Doug Edwards and Ian McGregor.

×

Bruce Spooner, Alex Mackie and Ian Carmichael.

×

33

×

Along with Gary Schroder, Des Schroder, Gary Martin and Dick Twisleton

×

John Jennings and Garth Robinson

×

Wilf Farndale, Nigel Famdale, Dave Nelson and Gary Fowler

×

Ces Brown, Fred Whitely, George Crawford and Jack Smith

×

Martin King, Hemi Leach, Don Green, Graeme Wagner, Hiki Swann and Graham Thomas

×

MC Bernie Brown (down from Tauranga for the occasion), John Every (Crippled Children Society publicity officer) and David Conway

×

Brian Shields, Dion Kohn, Morris Bramwell, Derek Allan and Les Castles

Previous article Issue contents Next article

All images and text on this website are made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 New Zealand (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/nz/).