Higgins family boost for MSP
The Higgins family’s long association with Marist rugby will benefit MSP hugely over the next three years with the family offering to sponsor rugby development at the club.
Sir Patrick and Bernard Higgins, chair and managing director respectively of Higgins Group Holdings Ltd, have been long-time supporters of Palmerston North Marist and Manawatu rugby. They have a family link with MSP through the late Cam Stewart, a brother-in-law who played for Wellington Marist.
As their business interests expand in the capital, particularly through Higgins Concrete and Higgins Contracting, they’ve offered to financially support rugby at Marist St Pats. That support will be earmarked for rugby development through such initiatives as dress gear for the colts, coaching clinics and the blazer programme.
MSP chairman Ruffy Mollo is delighted with the arrangement and says it is a mark of the family’s commitment to Marist rugby that they are not seeking naming or other rights. ‘They see their support simply as an opportunity to foster and encourage Marist and MSP traditions and skills that equip young men for rugby and for life generally.’
Higgins was set up by Irish immigrant Dan Higgins in the mid-1950s and has grown to be one of New Zealand’s leading roading construction and civil contracting firms employing over 900 people.
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