Mourie re-elected to NZRU board

Former All Blacks captain Graham Mourie has held off a challenge from Hawke's Bay chairman Richard Hunt to be re-elected to the New Zealand Rugby Union board for a fourth term today.

Moruie was nominated by the Taranaki RFU was re-elected to the board as the Central Zone representative.

Mourie has been on the board since 2002 and is currently one of the NZRU delegates on the International Rugby Board Council and chairman of the IRB's rugby committee.

Meanwhile, current Rugby Southland chairman Graham Cooney and Christopher Doig QSM were appointed to the NZRU Board today.

Cooney fills the vacant Southland Zone position while Doig, a former NZ Cricket chief executive, has been appointed as the new Independent Board Member and replaces Bill Thurston.

Former All Blacks captain Sir Wilson Whineray was also re-elected as NZRU Patron for the next three years. Sir Wilson has held the position since 2003.

- NZ HERALD STAFF