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Location (city or town)GreymouthPersonJ.ForrestL. ForrestR.NuttallG. MenziesJ.LeeA. O'DonnellC. McGouganJ. MundyJ. NewtonR.NeilsonF. ThompsonC. McBrideR.O'DonnellOrganisation (eg business)West Coast Rugby League
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Date Created25th September 2019CommentsGeorge McKenzie: At least SIX Kiwi's in the team: Ray Nuttal, Jack (Nippy) Forrest, Geordie Menzies, Jack (Chang) Newton, Bob Neilson and Charlie McBride. Would, more than likely, have seen this team play but cannot recall where or which team they were playing. Can anyone help? They were all my heroes when a schoolboy!
Maye Dunn: George they played Great Britain at Wingham Park. If you click on the photo it will take you to alternative photos and the cover of the program is one of them.
Alan Messenger: A great team, makes me sad at the decline of League on the Coast. Some of those guys wouldn’t be out of place in any team or code.
Peter Fleming: bob odonnell was also a kiwi
Manage
Cole Jones Layne Green check out the 3rd photo. Teams from everywhere!
Rose Green: Cole Jones that’s cool
Cole Jones: Rose Green Inchbonnie, Rotomanu, Lake Brunner all had teams. Nelson Creek had their own separate team from Ngahere, Runanga and Rapahoe had their own teams. They'd have never believed a couple of generations later there wouldn't even be a comp.
Rose Green: Cole Jones I no it’s so sad .. still breaks my heart
Layne Green: Cole Jones it's awesome but really sad.
It would of been great having a comp like that.
Sue Morris We had Charlie McBride picture on our wall. My dad great friend
Brian Langton
The Westcoast rugby union must have lost a lot of players to rugby Leaque in those early years.
Peter Robertson
Brian Langton Hard to say.Both codes were strong then. A few rugby players shifted for a chance to make the Kiwis but generally speaking they did their own thing and did it well. There were always more rugby players because of the strong Hokitika and rural influence.
John Coffey
Peter Robertson Generally miners and mill workers, especially from townships such as Blackball, Ngahere, Brunner, Runanga, played league and office workers, teachers etc mostly played union. Kevin Meates once told me he and his fellow All Black brother Bill had never seen a union game until they went to St Bede's College in Chch. Their two brothers stayed at Greymouth Marist HS and became rep league players. Their father was a West Coast league administrator. Heritage was everything and inter-code rivalry was intense. Even in summer: in the 1960s there were Marist (the league guys) and Celtic (the union mob) cricket teams and it was war when they met, especially for a school kid like me caught up in it -- but proudly playing for Marist!
Jim Webber
Brian Langton I can remember Charlie McBride coming out to the rural farming areas selling Mens and boys clothing out of his Austin panel van.
Tracey Ramsay
Keri Archer Malcolm Kym Campbell is this your dad?
John DeLury
Martin Griffin Note the touch judge
Jacinda McBride
Patrick Mcbride.. Charlie in here
Patrick Mcbride
Jacinda McBride nice, Jim’s rounded chin
Nigel Jayes
col mcbride is that your grandad as captain
Ivy Parkyway
Rae Amad did you see this photo Rae , your dads in it xxSarah Murray
Jenny Forrest
Murray Thomson
Really great players there.
Michael James Keating
Murray Thomson see the names of the cobden migits tomo
Jock Allen
7 BlackBall players there
Linda McTigue
Chang Newton Snr was a new father or about to be
Margaret Newton Alley
Linda McTigue Chang was my father’s brother.
Peter Fleming
Seven Blackball players in this team
Martin Griffin
Touch judge my father Jim
Peter Roe
My great uncle was a miner and lived in Blackball...I played against the touring kiwis in 1975 as a 19 year old here in England...he fought for NZ in WW1 and stayed with you guys until his death....I feel we have a connection
Jock Allen
Tough Buggers those daysMiners and sawmillers GREAT PHOTOS
Allan Upston
I was in the Westcoast schoolboys team 1950
Marlene Cleveland
Bob Neilson… my late handsome Dad!
Jess Jefferies
What a team
Sue Buchanan Brownlee
Charlie Mcbride
Vernon Pattinson
Ray was a miner when i worked at Rewanui
Allan Bradley
My uncle Bob Neilson was the strongest man i have met
Malcolm Kym Campbell
Luke Campbell, Ashleigh Campbell,
Jemma Hartley, Keri Archer
Bill Liddell
Malcolm Kym Campbell Was very highly regarded in Blackball and in Reefton
Maye Dunn: George they played Great Britain at Wingham Park. If you click on the photo it will take you to alternative photos and the cover of the program is one of them.
Alan Messenger: A great team, makes me sad at the decline of League on the Coast. Some of those guys wouldn’t be out of place in any team or code.
Peter Fleming: bob odonnell was also a kiwi
Manage
Cole Jones Layne Green check out the 3rd photo. Teams from everywhere!
Rose Green: Cole Jones that’s cool
Cole Jones: Rose Green Inchbonnie, Rotomanu, Lake Brunner all had teams. Nelson Creek had their own separate team from Ngahere, Runanga and Rapahoe had their own teams. They'd have never believed a couple of generations later there wouldn't even be a comp.
Rose Green: Cole Jones I no it’s so sad .. still breaks my heart
Layne Green: Cole Jones it's awesome but really sad.
It would of been great having a comp like that.
Sue Morris We had Charlie McBride picture on our wall. My dad great friend
Brian Langton
The Westcoast rugby union must have lost a lot of players to rugby Leaque in those early years.
Peter Robertson
Brian Langton Hard to say.Both codes were strong then. A few rugby players shifted for a chance to make the Kiwis but generally speaking they did their own thing and did it well. There were always more rugby players because of the strong Hokitika and rural influence.
John Coffey
Peter Robertson Generally miners and mill workers, especially from townships such as Blackball, Ngahere, Brunner, Runanga, played league and office workers, teachers etc mostly played union. Kevin Meates once told me he and his fellow All Black brother Bill had never seen a union game until they went to St Bede's College in Chch. Their two brothers stayed at Greymouth Marist HS and became rep league players. Their father was a West Coast league administrator. Heritage was everything and inter-code rivalry was intense. Even in summer: in the 1960s there were Marist (the league guys) and Celtic (the union mob) cricket teams and it was war when they met, especially for a school kid like me caught up in it -- but proudly playing for Marist!
Jim Webber
Brian Langton I can remember Charlie McBride coming out to the rural farming areas selling Mens and boys clothing out of his Austin panel van.
Tracey Ramsay
Keri Archer Malcolm Kym Campbell is this your dad?
John DeLury
Martin Griffin Note the touch judge
Jacinda McBride
Patrick Mcbride.. Charlie in here
Patrick Mcbride
Jacinda McBride nice, Jim’s rounded chin
Nigel Jayes
col mcbride is that your grandad as captain
Ivy Parkyway
Rae Amad did you see this photo Rae , your dads in it xxSarah Murray
Jenny Forrest
Murray Thomson
Really great players there.
Michael James Keating
Murray Thomson see the names of the cobden migits tomo
Jock Allen
7 BlackBall players there
Linda McTigue
Chang Newton Snr was a new father or about to be
Margaret Newton Alley
Linda McTigue Chang was my father’s brother.
Peter Fleming
Seven Blackball players in this team
Martin Griffin
Touch judge my father Jim
Peter Roe
My great uncle was a miner and lived in Blackball...I played against the touring kiwis in 1975 as a 19 year old here in England...he fought for NZ in WW1 and stayed with you guys until his death....I feel we have a connection
Jock Allen
Tough Buggers those daysMiners and sawmillers GREAT PHOTOS
Allan Upston
I was in the Westcoast schoolboys team 1950
Marlene Cleveland
Bob Neilson… my late handsome Dad!
Jess Jefferies
What a team
Sue Buchanan Brownlee
Charlie Mcbride
Vernon Pattinson
Ray was a miner when i worked at Rewanui
Allan Bradley
My uncle Bob Neilson was the strongest man i have met
Malcolm Kym Campbell
Luke Campbell, Ashleigh Campbell,
Jemma Hartley, Keri Archer
Bill Liddell
Malcolm Kym Campbell Was very highly regarded in Blackball and in Reefton
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