Noel Bickerton
Noel Bickerton was a rugby league player who represented New Zealand national rugby league team, New Zealand in 1937 in two test matches against the touring Australia national rugby league team, Australian side scoring a try in each match. He thus became the 249th player to represent New Zealand. Bickerton also played for Auckland Māori (1935–38) in its formative years, and New Zealand Māori in 1937. He was a Richmond Rovers junior player and graduated to their senior side in 1935 where he played 82 matches for them over the following 5 years predominantly in the first five eighth (standoff) position in some of the glory years of the side. Early life Noel Bickerton was born on April 24, 1914. His father was Charles Frederick Balfour Bickerton, and his mother was Valentine Gertie Bickerton (née. Simpkon). Charles mother was Isabella Whittaker, the daughter of Irihapeti Hineraria Te Wherowhero, who herself was apparently the daughter of Pōtatau Te Wherowhero the first Māori ...
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Auckland
Auckland (pronounced ) ( mi, Tāmaki Makaurau) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. The List of New Zealand urban areas by population, most populous urban area in the country and the List of cities in Oceania by population, fifth largest city in Oceania, Auckland has an urban population of about It is located in the greater Auckland Region—the area governed by Auckland Council—which includes outlying rural areas and the islands of the Hauraki Gulf, and which has a total population of . While European New Zealanders, Europeans continue to make up the plurality of Auckland's population, the city became multicultural and Cosmopolitanism, cosmopolitan in the late-20th century, with Asian New Zealanders, Asians accounting for 31% of the city's population in 2018. Auckland has the fourth largest Foreign born, foreign-born population in the world, with 39% of its residents born overseas. With its large population of Pasifika New Zealanders, the city is ...
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