It was initially put on a month-by-month lease but, in 2020, Squash NZ baulked at the projected cost of repairs and decided it would be demolished. Enter Gary Murdoch, a man in his 70s who played his first game of squash in the Kelburn club in 1969, the start of a lifelong love of the sport. Passionate about the club, he and others began a drive to save it. KEVIN STENT/Stuff Dame Susan Devoy isn’t afraid to get her hands dirty as she tries to help squash club and gym Club Kelburn get back on its feet. And enter Dame Susan, not long out of her Race Relations Commissioner post and, in her own-words, in semi-retirement in Mount Maunganui in Bay of Plenty.