Mocky Brereton

[4] and made his New Zealand national rugby league team debut in 1969 while playing for the Greymouth Marist club.

Brereton then moved to Christchurch, joining the Marist-Western Suburbs club in the Canterbury Rugby League competition in 1970.

In 1975 he played one match in the World Championship Series but was not selected for the squad for the October finals.

Instead he played for Canterbury in the side that defeated Auckland in the New Zealand Rugby League final.

[10] Brereton was a Police detective from his playing days[5] until his retirement in 1995, after 25 years in the force.