Looking at the Onslow team of 1955 that won the first of their two Jubilee Cups. For more, read our story from 2015 on this team at this link: 1955: The year the suburbanites won the Jubilee Cup This Saturday's Premier grade club rugby draws. Round 9 in the Men's and Round 2 of the...
Stan Judd (left) and Cardy Williams (right) – two leading players for Onslow and Wellington in the 1950s. Two popular front rowers in Wellington rugby during the 1950s who both played for Onslow and won the Jubilee Cup together in 1955. Judd was a hard-playing hooker and Williams was an all-action prop. Both players would...
Kia ora, The office will be closed from 1 pm on 19 December until Monday 12 January 2025 when it will reopen at 9 am. Emails and voicemails will not […]
‘Mrs Martin was one of the oldest residents in Wellington, and was highly esteemed for her plain unostentatious kindness of disposition’. Marion Baird was born in Fountainhall, a hamlet southeast...
Jacob was the sixth child of James ‘Worser’ Heberley and his wife Te Wai (also known as Māta Te Naihi), of the Puketapu people of Te Āti Awa. James and...
Thomas was born in Oxford, England and trained as an engineer, working on the Great Northern Railway and at University College, London. He came to New Zealand in 1873 and...
