Ray Lawless (New Zealand)
Raymond Victor Lawless (28 May 1909 – 3 June 1968) was a rugby league player who represented New Zealand national rugby league team, New Zealand in 2 tests in 1932 and 1 test in 1935 against England and Australia respectively. In the process he became the 222nd New Zealand representative. Early life Lawless was born on May 28, 1909, in Auckland. His parents were Marion Kate Lawless (nee Burchell), though she was more commonly known as Catherine, and Charles Cecil Lawless. Ray had 8 brothers and sisters. The family lived on Dryden Street in Grey Lynn. Playing career Richmond Rovers Lawless was playing second row for the Richmond senior B team in 1929 and 1930. His family house backed on to Grey Lynn Park in Grey Lynn which was the home of the Richmond Bulldogs, Richmond Rovers club. The senior B competition received some publicity in the Auckland newspapers and in the Auckland Star following a game in May, 1930 it was said that “Ragge and Lawless played splendidly for Richm ...
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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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