Obituaries and Rugby
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Vernon Lyall Darke
- Old Boys - University Rugby Club
- #image_967774993 { width: 48%;} It is with great sadness that the OBURFC advises members of the peaceful passing of our Life Member and Past President Vern Darke.
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Former Ories and Upper Hutt player and coach Bob Lendrum passes away
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Former Oriental lock and Upper Hutt coach and representative player and coach Bob Lendrum passed away recently. Bob Lendrum came to Wellington from ‘up north’ in Whangarei and joined the Oriental club. He represented Wellington between 1963-1966, went to Fiji for work and coached their national team whilst there, before returning to New Zealand and...
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Denis 'Boots' Fisher
- Oriental Rongotai Football Club
- It is with deep sadness that we advise of the sudden passing of Club Legend and Life Member Denis "Boots" Fisher at his home in Island Bay last night. The phrase " A Good Club Man" is often bandied about but for the last 50 odd years it probably applied to Boots more than any other at this club.
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Island Bay, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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Former Wellington Lions coach Bill Freeman passes away
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: Wellington flanker Graham Williams, who captained Wellington in Freeman's last year as coach of the Lions in 1970, is unable to haul in Hawke's Bay wing Mick Duncan neat the corner flag in a famous Ranfurly Shield challenge in Napier in 1967.
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Condolences to the Billing family
- Wellington Rugby Referees Association
- Former Wellington RRA Secretary, Rob Billing, passed away last Thursday (14th June). Rob was an active referee and was the Association Secretary from 1989 to 1991. Rob’s funeral was held in Featherston on Tuesday.
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Condolences to Rochester family
- Wellington Rugby Referees Association
- A former Wellington RRA member, Tom Rochester, passed away early this week. Tom’s funeral will be held in the Hope Centre, 4 Downer St, Lower Hutt on Friday 4th May at 10:30am.
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Donald David Bond
- Oriental Rongotai Football Club
- Don Bond was an old-school public servant who had four great loves in his life - his family, friends, rugby club and work, which culminated in his job as director of immigration during the Muldoon and Lange years of the 1980s. Former immigration minister Aussie Malcolm numbered himself among Bondy's legion of fans. On learning of the death of his former director from respiratory and assorted ailments this week, Mr Malcolm recalled the true-blue Wellingtonian as self-effacing and a person who drew no attention to himself.
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Club Patron Don Bond Passes Away......RIP
- Oriental Rongotai Football Club
- It is with great sadness that we advise the death of our Patron Don Bond on Sunday July 17th at his home in Lower Hutt.
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Colin Nelson Harrington Bridge (Bugsy)
- Oriental Rongotai Football Club
- Life Member Colin Bridge (Bugsy) passed away early this morning (Friday 22nd April).
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Bereavement - Oriental Rongotai Patron | Jim Currie
- Oriental Rongotai Football Club
- It is with great sadness that we note the passing of Life Member and Patron Jim Currie on Friday 8th October after a long battle with illness.
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