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Sri Lanka Clubs: Rajasingham president of Colts CC
The Daily News - 8 July

An unprecedented crowd of members collected on Sunday evening to support the contest for President at the 125th AGM of Colts Cricket Club between M.W. Rajasingham and Shanthi Wijesinghe. Keenly contested and almost evenly balanced the secret balloting went on in well disciplined style with Rajasingham coming off successfully defeating Wijesinghe 74 to 73 votes. Tita Nathanielsz Patron of the Club conducted the contest as chairman pro-tem. He used the opportunity to pay tribute to Gamini Goonesena the out-going President for an exceptionally skilful period of chief stewardship of the Club during which time the Club showed tremendous success and improvement. Others elected were:

Patron: Tita Nathanielsz

Vice Patron: E. Cramer, Mohan Amalean, Hugh Gunesekera, R. Samarasekera, D. Wimalasena, C. M. Vasa

President: M. W. Rajasingham

Vice Presidents: Ravith Perera, Trevor Rajaratnam, Shanthi Wijesinghe

Secretary: M. Zahuir

Treasurer: Walwin Goonetilleke

Captain First Division: D. Samaraweera

Captain 2nd division: Monto Perera

Captain 3rd division: M. Warnapura

Ladies Secretary: S. de S. Wijeratne

Ladies Captain: Miss F. Sivanathan

General committee: Gamini Goonesena, M. Mathivanam, N. Ranathunga.


Source: The Daily News