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Pioneers of Rugby in Wellington 099: Henry Avery
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Not to be confused with his namesake Harry Avery who was the captain of the St Pat’s Old Boys team that shared the Jubilee Cup with Petone in 1949 (profile 093), this Henry ‘Harry’ Avery played his rugby in a much earlier generation. Henry Avery was out of Wellington College and was a leading player...
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Scoring runs hot in sixth round Swindale Shield matches
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- Competition frontrunners Ories on the attack at home this afternoon against Marist St Pat’s. Photo: Andy McArthur. By Steven White & Scott MacLean There was some hot scoring and more surprise results in Wellington club rugby in mild, sunny conditions on Saturday, with Petone, Hutt Old Boys Marist and Johnsonville all pushing past 50 points...
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Ories on top as Pōneke, Petone and Paremata-Plimmerton leave it late for wins
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- Dominic Ropeti and Ories attack the line today in their win over Tawa in the Swindale Shield. Photo: Andy McArthur. By Steven White, Scott MacLean & Adam Julian Swindale Shield Round 5 results at a glance: Pōneke 41 – Johnsonville 38 Hutt Old Boys Marist 55 – Wellington Axemen 17 Wainuiomata 67 – Northern United...
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Matchday highlights: Upper Hutt Rams v Petone
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- Matchday scoring highlights of Saturday’s fourth round Swindale Shield affair between the Upper Hutt Rams and Petone. The home team the Rams won on a last play try, taking the game 32-29 on their Old Timers’ Day. The Rams also won the Connolly Cup, their interclub trophy first presented to Petone in 1968. With a...
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Ories only unbeaten team as three Swindale Shield matches decided late
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- Replacement outside back Josh Love about to score the match-winner on fulltime for the Upper Hutt Rams against Petone. Photo: Andy McArthur. By Steven White & Scott MacLean Oriental-Rongotai are now the only unbeaten team in Wellington Premier club rugby, emerging as one of three winners in thrilling circumstances on the fourth afternoon of the...
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Anzac Day Round thrillers
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- Anzac Day 2018 at the Petone Recreation Ground. Photo: Andy McArthur This Saturday’s fourth round of the Swindale Shield is being played a day after Anzac Day on Friday. There has been no shortage of thrillers contested when games have fallen on Anzac Day down the years. A few examples below from the Today in...
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Denyer putting best foot forward for Tawa and representative teams
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- Above: Jacob Denyer scores his try against Petone in round two. Photo: Jun Tanlayco By Adam Julian The conviction shown by Jacob Denyer on the rugby field extends to his behavior off it. The 20-year-old Tawa fullback, a Hurricanes Under-20 selection, maintains a full-time job as an administrator at the Te Rauparaha Arena. He’s the...
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Ories and Petone unbeaten, as MSP win on fulltime against Paremata-Plimmerton
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- Above: Marist St Pat’s with the winning try on fulltime against Paremata-Plimmerton. Photo: Andy McArthur. By Steven White, Scott MacLean & Adam Julian There were five teams unbeaten heading into today’s third round of the Swindale Shield; now there are just two. Those unbeaten sides are Oriental-Rongotai and Petone, who both piled on the points...
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Pepe and Petone positioning for strong season
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- Above: Petone fullback Jermaine Pepe in action on debut for his new club in round one against the Wellington Axemen. Photo: Mike Lewis Pictures. By Steven White If he stays injury free, expect outside back Jermaine Pepe to influence more matches than not for Petone throughout the remainder of the club season, and by extension...
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Swindale Shield matchday Scoring highlights: Petone (28) v Tawa (24)
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- The Petone and Tawa teams in action during the match. Photo: Grant Wall. The two teams met at Lyndhurst Park, Tawa in the second round of the 2025 Swindale Shield competition, in bright, sunny conditions on 12 April. On the anniversary of the Titanic sinking, the home team didn’t go down easily and indeed did...
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Questions to be answered in second round as five of seven matches played in town
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- Above: Thumbs up for Round Two of the Swindale Shield tomorrow. The Wellington Axemen are one of five city and town clubs playing at home, hosting Northern United, whilst Petone are on the road at Tawa. By Scott MacLean & Steven White Week one is done and dusted, and while some questions were answered in...
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Harry Irving, Stanley Solomon in New Zealand U20s for South Africa tournament
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- Harry Irving leads the charge for his Old Boys University side this past Saturday against Tawa. Photo: Andy McArthur. Wellington club rugby players Harry Irving (Old Boys University) and Stanley Solomon (Petone) have been selected 31-man 2025 New Zealand Under 20s squad for The Rugby Championship (TRC) Under 20 tournament in South Africa in May....
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Colts Round One Highlights: Tawa (45) v OBU (29)
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- The opening round of the Colts round-robin Paris Memorial Trophy was in Wellington on Saturday, with Petone defeating Wellington 88-0 and Norths also holding Avalon scoreless winning 57-0. Pare-Plim also topped 50, beating Johnsonville 64-15, and the Upper Hutt Rams opened with a 36-14 win over Ories. MSP won their Battle of Kilbirnie 31-17 over...
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Pioneers of Rugby in Wellington 093: Harry Avery
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- Harry Avery was the captain of the St Pat’s Old Boys club that won (shared with Petone) its sole Jubilee Cup title in 1949. Avery was a lock and spent four seasons from the late 1940s in the Wellington representative team, and he played against the touring British and Irish Lions in 1950. Arthur Henry...
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Sideline Conversions 10 March (some rugby news and information to start the week)
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- Action from North Park on Saturday where the Petone and Pōneke squads met. Updated: Week three of the club rugby season starts today, with more clubs in action for the first time this season this coming Saturday, including Tawa, the Wellington Axemen and Old Boys University. Check club social media pages for more, and we...
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Aisle be Back: Hurricanes v Moana Pasifika
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- Petone’s Harry Godfrey flies through to score his try last week against the Blues. By Kevin McCarthy Into round 4 and don’t think we’ve had a banana peel result yet. That is when everyone thinks a team could not possibly lose to some underdog – and then it does. This year’s Super Rugby Pacific is...
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Hurricanes Hunters and U20s rugby this weekend
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- The community rugby fields of Wellington and the lower North Island mostly remain subdued for at while longer, but the wider region’s high performance teams are in action this weekend. The Petone and Pōneke clubs are underway for the first time this year, meeting in a Colts and Senior squads dust off at North Park....
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New players to feature in Super Rugby squads in 2025
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- The Hurricanes have nine new signings in their 38-player squad, some of whom could also be in line to make their Swindale Shield debuts next season. The full squad, as released this morning, is listed below. There are 12 Wellington players in the Hurricanes squad, these being: Asafo Aumua (Avalon), TJ Clarke (Petone) Caleb Delany...
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Paremata-Plimmerton and Petone Wellington club sevens champions
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- By Steven White. Photos by Andy McArthur. Paremata-Plimmerton (men’s) and Petone (women’s) are the 2024 Wellington club rugby sevens champions. Both clubs defended their titles that they won last year at the same venue as then at Trentham Memorial Park. Paremata-Plimmerton retained the American Ambassador’s Trophy, while Petone have stored away the Eleonor Roosevelt Cup...
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Clarke, Kriletich, Su’a-Smith win Best & Fairest Awards
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Paremata-Plimmerton’s Sam Clarke, Marist St Pats’ Milan Kriletich, and Petone’s Keira Su’a-Smith took home the feature club awards from last night’s Wellington Rugby awards. Clarke and Kriletich were joint-winners of the mens Billy Wallace crown, while Su’a-Smith was the outright winner of the women’s Erin Rush Trophy. Clarke and Kriletich each tallied 19 points across...
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Tjay Clarke on the rise for Wellington Lions
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- Tjay Clarke in action for Petone against Ories earlier this season. Photo: Andy McArthur. By Steven White Is Tjay Clarke currently the biggest over-achiever in the Wellington rugby? We ask that question in a positive way – the current Lions wing and fullback with the cool head, booming left boot and a steely eye for...
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MANUKURA beat St Mary’s in Hurricanes final to retain Rex Kerr Cup and return to Top Four
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- By Steven White Photos by Andy McArthur For the fourth consecutive year in the Hurricanes Region Schoolgirls’ Final, Manawatu champions MANUKURA have beaten St Mary’s College. They won today’s final 22-10 in fine, breezy conditions at the Petone Recreation Ground. Left wing Tayleh Seng scored the first and last tries for MANUKURA as they completed...
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Sideline Conversions 26 August (some rugby news and information to start the week)
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- A colossal week of rugby for Wellington and lower North Island teams, as the action continues to come thick and fast. The midweek rugby sees the St Mary’s College and Manukura teams meet in the Hurricanes schoolgirls Rex Kerr Cup final. This is set down for the Petone Rec at 1.30pm on Wednesday. The winner...
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Harry Irving and OBU preparing for Jubilee Cup final on Saturday
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- Harry Irving on the attack against Petone earlier this season. Photo: Andy McArthur. By Adam Julian Most players go through their careers without winning a Jubilee Cup even if they are of rare quality and durability. Jason Goble played 275 games for Avalon and never contested a decider. Similarly, Paul Hakaraia made 255 starts for...
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Matchday Ed Chaney Cup semi-final scoring highlights: Tawa (33) v Petone (21)
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- The two teams met at Lyndhurst Park on Saturday in their Premier 2, Division 1 semi-final. Conditions were wet but still and not cold. Tawa made a rocking start to the match, racing to a 20-0 lead. They then kicked their second penalty to go 23-0 up. Petone lost a player to the sin-bin but...
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Brett Manaia and Eagles ready for Jubilee Cup playoffs
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- Brett Manaia with ball in hand in his 100th Premier game recently against Petone. Photo: Andy McArthur. By Steven White The Manaia surname has been a near-constant entry on Hutt Old Boys Marist teamlists for well over a decade. Three of the four Manaia brothers out of St Bernard’s College have appeared in HOBM Premier...
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Colts quarterfinal match highlights: Tawa (26) v Petone (17)
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- The two teams met at the Petone Rec on Saturday in their Colts quarter-final. There could only be one winner to progress through to this coming week’s semi-finals and this proved to be Tawa. They came back from 12-5 down at halftime and then 17-5 behind early in the second half to win 26-17. The...
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Sideline Conversions 15 July (some rugby news and information to start the new week)
- Wellington Club Weekly
- There was no pot of gold at the bottom of the rainbow on Saturday at the Petone Rec for the home team. Photo: Andy McArthur. Monday morning edition (updates expected): Then there were eight. All four of this coming Saturday’s four Jubilee Cup and Hardham Cup semi-finals could go either way, making for a mouthwatering...
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Ories and OBU win epic Jubilee Cup battles to progress to semi-finals
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- Jonty Bird scores a converted try for Ories at the death to lock it up at 20-20 at the Petone Rec. The two teams played 20 minutes of extra time, but the deadlock remained and Ories were the winners because they scored more tries than Petone. Photo: Andy McArthur. By Steven White, Scott MacLean &...
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Pioneers of Rugby in Wellington 078: Roy White
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- Flanker Roy Maxwell White was Wellington’s first post second world war captain, an All Black and later a Wellington selector and leading administrator at his Petone club. White was Wellington’s captain between 1945-48 and he played 10 games and four tests for the All Blacks in 1946-47. He played 67 first class games, spanning 1939-52....
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