Thomas Lynch (rugby, Born 1927)
Thomas William Lynch (20 July 1927 – 29 December 2006) was a New Zealand rugby union and rugby league footballer. He played three rugby union internationals for New Zealand in 1951, before switching codes and joining English club Halifax R.L.F.C., Halifax (List of Halifax R.L.F.C. players, Heritage № 640), for whom he made 188 appearances between 1951 and 1956. Rugby union A Rugby union positions#Centre, second five-eighth, Lynch represented and at a provincial level, and was a member of the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, in 1951. He played ten matches for the All Blacks on their 1951 New Zealand rugby union tour of Australia, tour of Australia that year, including three internationals, scoring 27 points in all. Rugby league In November 1951, Lynch accepted a contract to play professional rugby league for the Halifax club in England. At the time, his signing fee of £5000 was a record for a New Zealand player paid by an English club. He played for Halifax unti ...
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Naseby, New Zealand
Naseby is a small town, formerly a borough, in the Maniototo area of Central Otago, New Zealand. It is named after a village in Northamptonshire, England. Previous names of the township were Parker's, Hogburn and Mt Ida. The town catch phrase is "2000 feet above worry level" indicating its altitude. Naseby is 395 km (5 hours drive) from Christchurch and 143 km (1 hour 45 minutes drive) from Dunedin. An important township during the gold rush of the 1860s, Gold was discovered in the Hogburn in 1863. Much of the town has been preserved from this time and has something of the air of a working museum. At its peak, the population of the town was around 4,000 miners. Eighteen stores, 14 hotels, two butchers and a hospital had also been built to service the miners. In 1898, a railway line was constructed 12 km away in Ranfurly and as a result services gradually moved away from Naseby to Ranfurly. By the time administrative boundaries were changed in the 1980s, it had ...
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