Rugby personality dies
PA • Wellington One of New Zealand’s best-known rugby personalities, Mr Clarrie Gibbons, died in Lower Hutt on Wednesday. He was 81.
Mr Gibbons, who retired as president of the New Zealand Rugby Union in 1968, held many posts with the N.Z.R.F.U., and the Wellington Rugby
Football Union. He was chairman of the N.Z.R.F.U.’s management committee for five years, and also a North Island selector. Mr Gibbons, a life member of the Wellington union, was a Wellington selector for 12 years and coached at club level for more than 40 years.
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