Quentin Donald
Quentin Donald (13 March 1900 – 27 December 1965) was a New Zealand rugby union player and local politician. He appeared in 23 matches for the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, and served on the Featherston County Council for 27 years. Early life and family Born in Featherston, New Zealand, Featherston on 13 March 1900, Donald was the son of Alice Donald (née Ford) and her husband, Quentin Donald, a farmer. He was the younger brother of Jim Donald (rugby union), Jim Donald, who also played for the All Blacks. Donald was educated at Wellington College (New Zealand), Wellington College, where he was a member of the 1st XV rugby team in 1917. Donald became engaged to Hazel Winifred Meikle Davies in July 1924, and the couple married in Wellington on 16 December 1925. Donald's best man was Rawi Cundy. Rugby union A Rugby union positions#Hooker, hooker, Donald made his debut for Wairarapa Rugby Football Union, Wairarapa in 1918, the year after he left school, and in tha ...
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Featherston, New Zealand
Featherston (Māori language, Māori: ''Paetūmōkai'') is a town in the South Wairarapa (district), New Zealand, South Wairarapa District, in the Wellington Region of New Zealand's North Island. It is at the eastern foothills of Remutaka Range close to the northern shore of Lake Wairarapa, north-east of central Wellington and south-west of Masterton. The town has a population of Featherston has increasingly become a satellite town of Wellington since the Remutaka Tunnel, Remutaka rail tunnel opened in 1955; at the 2006 census, 36% of employed Featherston residents worked in Wellington and the Hutt Valley. This proximity to the capital, coupled with low house prices, made Featherston popular with writers, artists and those with young families, in turn leading to a recent upsurge in business investment and creative activity. From 2014 to 2019, housing prices in Featherston increased by 108% while rental prices went from an average of $140 to $400 in the same time period. His ...
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