MADE LIFE MEMBER

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 622, 26 March 1929, Page 12

MADE LIFE MEMBER

HONOUR FOR MR H. FROST

ENERGETIC RUGBY WORKER

Ninetv delegates to the annual meeting of the Auckland Rugby Union laevening were unanimous in recognising the services of Mr. H. Frost, 101 nine years chairman of the Manag - ment Committee, by electing him a liimember of the union. Mr. A. W. Gray praised Mr. Fros* for his work and said that no one worked harder for the good of Hugo, in New Zealand. In reply, Mr. Frost remarked that he was perhaps the first “foreigner upon whom the Auckland Union £3“ conferred such an honour. He j* learned his Rugby in Canterbury, nut he had taken up official work eager when he came to Auckland, his cit. of adoption. . Mr. Frost remembered when tu outlook at Eden Park was not the brightest for Rugby, but co-operati work had placed the game prominently on the map. Mr. Frost a tribute to the secretary of the union. Mr. T. W. Maben . . Mr. J. L. Conlan was of the opinion that Mr. Frost had given Auckland a good standing in New’ Zealand Rugny There was a time when Southern unions, such as Otago, Canterbui. and Wellington, had regarded Auckland as the “Bolshevik” centre of tne game in the Dominion Not a f® believed that Auckland, by keepin= the game with the times, had be.n tinkering with professionalism.