Reg Hintz Memorial
Burnside West Christchurch University Cricket Club | November 26, 2025
The club was privileged to host the memorial gathering for life member Reg Hintz last month on the 12th of October 2025.
In the crowded clubrooms Stuart Hintz started proceedings off with a cricket ball which was gifted to his father and a ‘red card’ to be shown to anyone who was taking too long or drifted into embargoed topics. Stu said the cricket ball to be a symbol of connected many of the people in the room and he was pass the ball on to the next speakers.
Born 14/06/1930, Died Father’s Day 7/9/2025 aged 95, a very good innings indeed! Stu was grateful he could arrive back in Christchurch from Africa just before his father passed away.
Reg was an accountant and also directly involved in a used car business, and ran a finance company. He was a gifted and bright student who had won a scholarship and attended Christ’s College & then onto University of Canterbury graduating with a Batchelor of Commerce in Accountancy.
A couple of years ago Reg attended a Christ’s College old boys reunion function dinner and there were only 2 students left from his graduating year. Reg featured in a Christ’s College article in 2023:
https://christscollege.com/ccoba/latest-news/building-better-businesses-for-75-years
Memories turned to Heaton Street where in the mid 1970s where Andrew and Ritchie Hintz and others, along with Chris and Ben Harris all regularly played cricket, what seemed like everyday, at the Hintz family backyard. There were so many broken windows that Reg & Ruth’s insurance company cancelled their glass insurance. Cricket was certainly very prominent among the Hintz family’s passions.
After College and a stint at Old Coll’s CC Reg moved to West Christchurch-University CC in 1963 and played President’s Cricket for many years as a leg spinner/batter and was a terrific supporter of the club and served on a number of committees holding the position Treasurer then becoming President from 1989-91, then becoming life member of the club.
At the site of Hunter Furniture, 4 Riccarton Road, Reg was their accountant and was known affectionally as the “Old Master”, his door would always be open and would often provide help and advice to the boys in the factory. He would work most Saturday’s and if there was a major cricket game on there was usually a transistor radio going sitting on his desk.
In fact, Reg would have to be the oldest practising accountant in NZ, the next oldest would have been Pierce Hannah of H.P. Hannah and Associates, but he retired at 93 Years old.
Reg was a good and very generous friend to many, with a dry sense of humour and a glint in his eye, he will be missed.
