A middle-order batsman and occasional bowler, Arthur Poole played in six of the eight matches Southland played in their brief period as a first-class team.
[1] In the first innings he hit two sixes and 11 fours and reached his 50 in 40 minutes.
[2] He also top-scored for Southland with 24 in their last first-class match, against the touring Australians in 1920–21.
Poole was a timber merchant and managed a sawmilling company.
[4][5] He married Ella Maude Sheppard at St John's Church in Invercargill on 12 November 1902.