Harold Raines Cameron (10 October 1912 – 8 October 2000) was a New Zealand

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er. He was a right-handed batsman who played for

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. Cameron was born at Dunedin in 1912, the younger brother of

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who also played for Otago.McCarron A (2010) ''New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010'', p. 29. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. He was educated at Otago Boys' High School and worked as a sales manager.McCarron, p. 30. Cameron made a single first-class appearance for the Otago during the 1939–40 season in a Plunket Shield match against Wellington. From the upper-middle order, he scored 26 runs in the first innings in which he batted, and 18 runs in the second.Harold Cameron
CricketArchive. Retrieved 2022-08-16. He had first played representative cricket for the side in the 1935–36 season match against Southland, and played a total of five times for Otago, including three times against Southland and in a match in March 1939 against a touring English side. He later became an Otago selector. Cameron died in 2000 at Auckland. He was 87.Harold Cameron

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. Retrieved 2022-08-16. An obituary was published in the ''New Zealand Cricket Almanack'' the following year.

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