RUGBY FOOTBALL
MR. G. H. DIXON ILL
1905 ALL BLACK MANAGER
Wherever Rugby football is played in New Zealand the name of Mr. G. H. Dixon, who was manager of the New Zealand Rugby team which visited Britain in 1905—the original All Blacks —is familiar. Consequently regret will be wide-spread at the news that Mr. Dixon is critically ill at his home in Oliver Street, Remuera, as the result of a paralytic stroke. Mr. Dixon was originally an Auckland Rugby footballer, and for a time in the 'eighties was secretary of the Auckland Rugby Union, but his business as a newspaper man had taken him to Wellington, where he was chairman of the New Zealand Rugby Union at the time of his appointment as manager of the New Zealand team in 1905. Since then Mr. Dixon, both in Wellington and Auckland, has been prominent in New Zealand Rugby Councils, and for one year was chairman of the Auckland Rugby Union. He has been resident in Auckland continuously for the past four years.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 281, 27 November 1931, Page 12
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