Doreen Porter

Te Ao Hou, March 1963, Page 53

Doreen Porter An Aucklander who, apart from being the most photographed girl at the Perth (Empire) Games ran second in the hundred yards. Others who helped to keep New Zealand's name to the forefront of international sport during 1962 were, Don Clarke in Rugby, the young boxer Kino with fine performances at the Games, Vic Haddon, Murray Halberg, and Marise Chamberlain and the Maori golfer Godfrey who after excellent amateur performances turned professional. There was very much more and the few mentioned above are a fair indication of the progress made in New Zealand sport in 1962. ? I would like to pay a special tribute here to the late James Grbich, the well-known Rugby player who was killed in a motor accident last year. Jimmy was born in the Kaitaia district and educated in Hamilton, later coming to live in Wellington. He was always to the fore in Rugby activities wherever he went, and he will be missed by very many of his fellow rugby players and I am sure, by the numerous spectators who enjoyed Jim's type of rugby play. He was a gentleman on and off the field and a true ambassador for the Maori people. This article is being printed in January and by the time Te Ao Hou is published in March some of my speculations may probably be disproved. However it makes speculations more exciting. In the 1962 roundup only few Maoris were mentioned in dispatches—but looking at 1963, perhaps?