[3] Jack Brodrick grew up in the Ruatoki area and attended Whakatane High School where he played in the 1st XV rugby union team.

They were tribal teams representing Māori with the Mātaatua name deriving from one of the first great voyaging canoes which arrived in the Whakatane area approximately 700 years ago.

All of whom would convert to rugby league relatively soon after the tour, with Nēpia, Chase, and Kawe all playing with Brodrick at Manukau, while Mataira joined the City Rovers club also in Auckland.

Brodrick found his place as a permanent loose forward following a race over 60 yards in which he and Harrison beat the remaining members of the touring party".

[56] The Courier Mail said afterwards, looking at the team named to play Queensland that “another important pack change will be the inclusion of Broderick, who surprised the managers with his sterling performance at Toowoomba”.

[64] Before 20,000 spectators at the Sydney Cricket Ground the Māori side won 14–5 to win their series against NSW with the Prime Minister of New Zealand, George Forbes in attendance.

[66] The Referee publication in Sydney reported that “Brodrick and Rodgers also played havoc among our inside men who were standing too far up on the opposition when New South Wales won the ball.

[67] The team then traveled north to play in Newcastle and their selectors, Billy Wallace, and Kingi Tahiwi chose Brodrick on the back of the scrum once more.

Durbridge ran after him and tackled his big opponent right on the line, but Brodrick dropped over and scored between the posts” with the kick putting the home side up 17–11 before King Country's late rally.

[84] Brodrick was then chosen in the Whakatane side to play a week later on 4 July against Rangitaiki for the Te Hurinui Apanui Shield at Matata.

It said “an outstanding forward of the Maori All Blacks who toured in Australia last year, [he] arrived in Auckland last week to play for the Manukau Rugby League Club.

Although Brodrick had been playing in the backs for Manukau recently, Brisbane selected him in the second row alongside George Mitchell from the Richmond Rovers club.

Early in the game “a spectacular hurdle by Broderick placed Auckland in a good position and Gault went over, only to be called back for a forward pass”.

[118] He played another “good game” against Newton on 17 July with Manukau winning once more, 22–5, to move into 3rd position on the table after ten rounds of the Fox Memorial championship.

[121] After a game for Manukau against Ponsonby, won 18–6 Brodrick was selected in the Possibles side to play the Probables, which was a New Zealand trial match on 28 July.

Brodrick made a number of brilliant dashes, but should learn to drop his one handed style of passing and dangerous hurdling tactics”.

[141] They beat Newton in round 1 of the consolation Phelan Shield competition, and then their season was over a week later on 18 September with a 16–10 loss to North Shore with Brodrick once again crossing for a try.

On 31 May they were entertained at George Court, Limited for morning tea, and then given a civic farewell at the Auckland Town Hall by the Mayor, Sir Ernest Davis.

The evening prior they were the guests at a farewell ball “tendered by the Auckland Rugby League Ladies’ Social Committee at the Peter Pan cabaret”.

[167] Ivan Culpan, the Auckland Rugby League secretary provided ‘thumb nail sketches’ of each player for the Australian newspapers and the following was published by the Cairns Post in regard to Brodrick: “J.

Age 25, weight 14.7, tall and dashing, Manukau forward – from the Bay of Plenty- has become a favourite with the New Zealand public for his fine play in the tight and loose.

[174] The Referee newspaper wrote “Tetley, the lock forward, and Brodrick, second row, menaced the home half-back, Williams, whenever the ball was secured by the Blues in the scrummage.

Carlaw spoke as did captain Bill McNeight, while Brodrick “responded on behalf of the Māori members of the team and, led by him, the New Zealanders gave a war cry”.

The Queensland side finished their training around 4pm and then the “whole of the home team had a good chance to look over Brodrick, Hemi, McNeight, and company and size them up”.

[182] W. Sneyd, a staff photographer with the Telegraph wrote “another forward who will delight the cricket ground spectators is Brodrick, who played here before with the last rugby union Māori team.

[185] The Telegraph said “the forwards, led by McNeight and Brodrick, held their own [but] they were simply overwhelmed in the closing stages”, and that those two players “valiantly tried to stem the rush of the Queenslanders during the second half, but they were handicapped by lack of support”.

[195] The Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners’ Advocate said that Midgley, the great work of J. Anderson, and J. Brodrick in the forward division were too much for the Group side in the early stages”.

Brodrick, along with teammate Pita Ririnui, and Harold Milliken of Papakura were said to have been “responsible for some of the finest play seen in the code for a considerable time”.

[233] He combined with George Nēpia in taking the ball “right downfield with inter-passing” before Pita Mahima worked the blindside for Wiberg to score.

[236] In a 21–19 loss to Mt Albert on 15 July Brodrick nearly won the game but was repelled twice from the try line by good tackling from Bruce Donaldson and Bob Banham.