Transferred to Sydney as his company's New South Wales representative, he continued his football career, and in 1930 was captain and coach of the NSW Australian rules team at the 1930 Adelaide carnival.

That year he won the Phelan Medal for the best and fairest player in the Sydney Australian rules football competition while playing for North Shore.

He coached the ACT side at the 1933 Sydney carnival and decided to stay in Canberra and joined the staff of the then Department of the Interior.

He played a leading part in the establishment of the Sir Leslie Morshead War Veterans' Home in Lyneham, serving as inaugural president of the board of management from 1961 until he retired in 1973.

For his extended work on the welfare of former service personnel and other activities in the community, he was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1966.