Maori Immigrant
(New Zealand Press Association)
AUCKLAND. May 23
His ancestors came from Hawaiki in the first canoe, but today a Maori. Mr I. Proctor, returned to New Zealand as an assisted British immigrant.
He is thought to be the first Maori ever to enter his own country on this basis.
Having spent more than 10 years in England, he became eligible for admission as a migrant. This meant he had to pay only a nominal fare in the liner Canberra for himself, his English wife and two children, both born in Yorkshire. Mr Proctor, who jokingly described himself as “a sunburnt pommy.”
left New Zealand in 1949 to play professional Rugby League for Halifax. He was a member of the famous New Zealand Army Kiwi Rugby team which toured Britain and France tn 1945. On returning to New Zealand he became a Maori AH Black. He was touring Fiji with the Maori All Blacks in 1949 when it was announced he had signed to play Rugby League in Britain. Mr Procior. who is 40. is a North Aucklander by birth. He has been coaching in Halifax and playing an occasional game since he retired from first-class football some years ago.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29830, 24 May 1962, Page 14
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