Seear retires
PA Dunedin A former All Black No. 8, Gary Seear, has announced his retirement from firstclass rugby. Seear, aged 31, said he no longer had enthusiasm for the game.
Earlier in the week he was named in the Otago team for what would have been his thirteenth season of first-class rugby. Seear, who said he would continue in club rugby, played 183 first-class
matches, 34 (including 12 tests) for New Zealand and 117 for Otago.
He toured South Africa (1976), France (1977) and Britain and Ireland (1978) with the All Blacks. In 1981 Seear refused to play for Otago against South Africa because of his opposition to apartheid. He said his reasons for not playing against South Africa were “moral and the deep divisions the tour was causing within society.”
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Press, 6 May 1983, Page 28
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