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Len Barchard
Leonard Barchard (3 February 1909 – 14 July 1975) represented the New Zealand rugby league team in 1930, becoming the 203rd Kiwi. He played one match on their tour of Australia and another against Auckland on his return. He also played for Auckland while representing three clubs in the Auckland Rugby League competition, City Rovers, Devonport United, and Marist Old Boys. He was the uncle of Kiwi, Des Barchard, while his brother Lawrence (Laurie) played seniors for City also. Early life Barchard was born on 3 February 1909 to Annie Barchard and Samuel Joseph Barchard. He had eight siblings; Albert (b. 1904), Lawrence (Laurie) (b. 1906), Mary Kathleen Veronica (b. 1911), Thelma Mildred Annie (b. 1912), Victor Joseph John (b. 1914), Vernun Vivienne Josephine (b. 1916), and Mona Marjorie Edna (b. 1917). Playing career City Rovers Barchard began playing rugby league for City Rovers senior side in 1929 after transferring there from Ponsonby United at the beginning of the season. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New South Wales
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Maurice Wetherill
Maurice Wetherill was a New Zealand rugby league player who represented New Zealand from 1924 to 1930 and was Kiwi number 156. Early life Maurice Wetherill was born in Auckland on 15 January 1898, the son of Maurice Charles Wetherill and Mary Ann Wetherill. He had a brother, James Ewart Wetherill, and a sister, Ivy Pearl Wetherill. He was a plumber by trade, and at the time of signing up for World War I, he was living on Ardmore Road in Ponsonby, New Zealand, Ponsonby with his family and working for A.J. Letham. World War I Maurice Wetherill enlisted in the armed forces on 27 February 1918, aged 20. At the time of his service his weight was recorded as 122lb, and his height 5 feet 5 inches. He commenced duty on 14 March 1918 and embarked for Suez, Egypt on the ''Moeraki'' on 11 October. The ship stopped in Sydney where the soldiers 'transhipped' to Malta to complete the journey. Wetherill was part of the Mounted Rifles – 43rd reinforcements. He served in Egypt during the l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allan Seagar
Allan Wilfred Seagar (20 June 1903 – 20 April 1984) was a rugby league player who represented New Zealand in 1930 in 9 matches, thus becoming New Zealand's 212th player. He also played for Auckland in 13 matches and played from 1923 to 1941 for Devonport United (North Shore Albions), playing 159 matches. His brother George Seagar also represented New Zealand at rugby league while his son Allan Herbert Seagar was a New Zealand champion swimmer, and represented New Zealand at the 1962 and 1966 Commonwealth Games. Early life Allan Seagar was born on 20 June 1903 in Auckland, New Zealand. His parents were Mary Waters and George Seagar. Allan was the youngest of 11 children along with his twin brother Leslie Waters Seagar. His other siblings were Irene May (1886-1968), George Bradley (1888-1968), William Charles Barten (1889-1952), Harold Edward (1891-1949), Albert Victor (1891-1933), Thomas Reginald (1894-1979), Ida Francis (1897-1967), Jessie Josephine Augusta (1899-1990), Gordon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Amos (rugby League)
James Ernest Amos (1907-1981) was a New Zealand rugby league footballer and coach who represented New Zealand and coached them, including at the 1954 World Cup. Playing career Amos played rugby union and soccer in his youth. When Marist Old Boys were expelled from the Canterbury Rugby Union in 1924 Amos was a lower grade player and followed the club to rugby league.Coffey, John. ''Canterbury XIII'', Christchurch, 1987. Amos first played first grade for Addington in 1925 in the Canterbury Rugby League competition and represented Canterbury in 1927.AMOS, James Ernest - 1930, 1932 ''nzleague.co.nz'' He spent the 1928 season with the in the |
Edwin Abbot (rugby League)
Edwin Frederick Abbott (9 November 1908 – 3 May 1976) was a New Zealand rugby league footballer who represented New Zealand in 1930 and 1932. Abbott was the nephew of 1905 All Black Harold Abbott and the uncle of Bill Deacon, a Kiwi from 1965 to 1971. Playing career From the Ngaruawahia Panthers club, Abbott represented South Auckland and the North Island. ''nzrl.co.nz'', October 2011 In 1930 he was selected for the tour of New South Wales, playing in both matches against |
Hec Brisbane
Hector Brisbane (1904–1963) was a New Zealand professional rugby league footballer who represented New Zealand national rugby league team, New Zealand. Playing career Brisbane played for the Marist Saints, Marist Old Boys in the Auckland Rugby League competition debuting in 1923. He had previously played for Ellerslie Eagles, Ellerslie United as a junior. In 1924, Brisbane represented Auckland rugby league team, Auckland City against the touring Great Britain Lions. He then made his debut for New Zealand, becoming List of New Zealand Kiwis representatives, Kiwi number 153. He was a part of the 1926–27 New Zealand rugby league tour of Great Britain, which was marred by the strike action by six of the forwards including Marist teammate Arthur Singe. During the 1932 New Zealand rugby league season, Brisbane captained New Zealand to a 0–3 series defeat by Great Britain on the 1932 Great Britain Lions tour. In the third test, Brisbane scored two tries but New Zealand lost 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sydney Cricket Ground
The Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) is a sports stadium in Sydney, Australia. It is used for Test cricket, Test, One Day International and Twenty20 cricket, as well as, Australian rules football and occasionally for rugby league, rugby union and association football. It is the home ground for the New South Wales cricket team, New South Wales Blues cricket team, the Sydney Sixers of the Big Bash League and the Sydney Swans of the Australian Football League. It is owned and operated by the Venues NSW, who also hold responsibility for the Sydney Football Stadium (2022), Sydney Football Stadium. History Beginning In 1811, the Governor of New South Wales, Lachlan Macquarie, established the second Sydney Common, about one-and-a-half miles (about 2,400m) wide and extending south from South Head Road (now Oxford Street, Sydney, Oxford St) to where Randwick Racecourse is today. Part sandhills, part swamp and situated on the south-eastern fringe of the city, it was used as a rubbish dump in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New South Wales Rugby League Team
The New South Wales rugby league team has represented the Australian state of New South Wales in rugby league football since the sport's beginnings there in 1907. Also known as the Blues due to their sky blue jerseys, the team competes in the annual State of Origin series. This annual event is a series of three games competing for the State of Origin shield. As of 2022, the team is coached by Brad Fittler and captained by James Tedesco. Prior to 1980 when the "state-of-origin" selection criteria were introduced, the New South Wales team, in addition to playing annually against Queensland, played matches against foreign touring sides and occasionally toured overseas themselves. They have played all their home matches at ANZ stadium in Sydney, New South Wales in the largest stadium in the state, since it was built in 1999 for the 2000 Sydney Olympics. The New South Wales team retained the 2019 Holden State of Origin Shield after beating Queensland 2-1 after being down 1–0, becomin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huddart Parker
Huddart Parker Ltd was an Australian shipping company trading in various forms between 1876 and 1961. It was one of the seven major coastal shippers in Australia at a time when shipping was the principal means of interstate and trans-Tasman transport. The company started in Geelong, but in 1890 shifted its offices to Melbourne. By 1910 Huddart Parker had grown to rank 24th of the top 100 companies in Australia by asset value. Several of the company's ships served in World War I and World War II. Huddart Parker ceased to be an independent company in 1961, when it was taken over by Bitumen and Oil Refineries Australia Limited. History The company was founded on 1 August 1876 in Geelong as Huddart, Parker & Co. Pty. Ltd, by James Huddart, Thomas J. Parker, John. Traill, and Captain T. Webb. Earlier, in the 1850s, James Huddart's uncle, Captain Peter Huddart had made his fortune importing coal for use in the Victorian goldfields. He was the first major operator handling coal from th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sydney
Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about towards the Blue Mountains to the west, Hawkesbury to the north, the Royal National Park to the south and Macarthur to the south-west. Sydney is made up of 658 suburbs, spread across 33 local government areas. Residents of the city are known as "Sydneysiders". The 2021 census recorded the population of Greater Sydney as 5,231,150, meaning the city is home to approximately 66% of the state's population. Estimated resident population, 30 June 2017. Nicknames of the city include the 'Emerald City' and the 'Harbour City'. Aboriginal Australians have inhabited the Greater Sydney region for at least 30,000 years, and Aboriginal engravings and cultural sites are common throughout Greater Sydney. The traditional custodians of the land on which modern Sydney stands are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wellington
Wellington ( mi, Te Whanganui-a-Tara or ) is the capital city of New Zealand. It is located at the south-western tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Remutaka Range. Wellington is the second-largest city in New Zealand by metro area, and is the administrative centre of the Wellington Region. It is the world's southernmost capital of a sovereign state. Wellington features a temperate maritime climate, and is the world's windiest city by average wind speed. Legends recount that Kupe discovered and explored the region in about the 10th century, with initial settlement by Māori iwi such as Rangitāne and Muaūpoko. The disruptions of the Musket Wars led to them being overwhelmed by northern iwi such as Te Āti Awa by the early 19th century. Wellington's current form was originally designed by Captain William Mein Smith, the first Surveyor General for Edward Wakefield's New Zealand Company, in 1840. The Wellington urban area, which only includes urbanised ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand Truth
''New Zealand Truth'' was a tabloid newspaper published weekly in New Zealand from 1905 to 2013. History ''New Zealand Truth'' was founded in 1905 by Australian John Norton in Wellington, as a New Zealand edition of his Sydney ''Truth'', aiming a sensational blend of sex, crime and radical politics at mainly working class readers. According to newspaper historian (and former ''NZ Truth'' journalist) Redmer Yska, English-born Norton was 'a combustible mix of tycoon, journalist, do-gooder and chronic, falldown pisshead.' Norton was on hand on 24 June 1905 when the first copies of the 'Maoriland' edition rolled off the presses in Luke's Lane, an alley that still runs at right angles to Wellington's Courtenay Place. Inaugural editor, Australian Robert Merrick, claimed 40,000 readers by 1907, with circulation in 'every Miners', Gum Diggers' and Timber-Getter's camp'. Three years later Frederick Dawson, a former editor of Norton's Queensland and West Australia editions of ''Truth' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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