Twenty-One Years of the ACS

purchase of the ACS headquarters has been stressed earlier and his nomination as a trustee has ensured that his wide administrative experience will still be available.He edited the Second XI Annual during its first three years and he has regularly taken photographs for the ACS when they have been needed, and in particular for the grounds' booklets for which he is now overseer. For many years Featherstone was a senior official with Leeds City Council before he became administrative secretary of the Women's Cricket Association, whose office is at Headingley. He is . a former secretary of the Council of Cricket Societies and the present ' editor of The White Rose, the David Harvey Yorkshire CCC magazine. David Harvey(bom 1928)relinquished the treasurer's job after five years during which time sales and turnover increased by 40 per cent as Featherstone's efforts reaped their reward. A meticulous planner, Harvey had the daunting task in 1986 at his first AGM as treasurer to propose that subscriptions be raised from £6 to £9,a long overdue increase and the first for four years. In spite of inflation and in particular mounting postal costs, five years elapsed before the subscription rose to £11 in 1991. Harvey began working life as a solicitor's clerk before moving into personnel management. He is now retired and apart from cricket and its research, he has a wide spread of interests, which include gardening, walking, politics, music and the theatre. Harvey's successor as treasurer was Jim examination ^^ - Nottingham. He recalls: 'There was Jim Ledbetter no choice really ... we all failed the examination, the price being hundreds from Bradman and Hassett;