SERVICE IN NAVY
D. HEENEY ACCEPTED The Poverty Bay and New Zealand welterweight amateur champion boxer, Darcy Heeney, has been accepted for service with the Royal Navy, and will enter the naval depot at Auckland on March 9. He expects to be dispatched overseas to join the navy in the active sphere of opeiations. Darcy Heeney has a notable sports record, and has more than fulfilled the hopes which his earlier endeavours in the boxing ring and on the football field had evoked. He is the only man who .has held the New Zealand welterweight title three years in succession. On the football field, he has been a tower of strength to the Marist Rugby Club, and in sporting circles in general he will be muen missed.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20186, 2 March 1940, Page 7
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127SERVICE IN NAVY Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20186, 2 March 1940, Page 7
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