Riverhead Rugby League Club

[3] On May 5, 1916, the Auckland Rugby League held their weekly management meeting and it was reported that “a newly formed club at Riverhead wrote expressing a desire to participate in the third grade competition, and the secretary was instructed to communicate with its officials with regard to the steps necessary for affiliation”.

The Observer newspaper wrote that “the Riverhead club journey to town on Saturday, and play at Victoria Park.

The members of this newly formed club are showing great keenness, as evidenced by their desire to travel in order to play a game”.

At the same management committee meeting Hugh Scally was nominated by the club to represent them on the Junior Advisory Board.

The league had a rule whereby two consecutive defaulted matches meant that a team had forfeited the right to compete and so they were ultimately the last ever fixtures for the club.

[14] After their removal from competition the club sent a donation of 1 pound and 5 shillings which they had raised from a dance to the rugby league.

It stated that “owing to enlistments, it was unable to raise a team for the remainder of the season, and asked permission to withdraw from the competition”.

[19] After returning from the war he played for the City Rovers seniors in the early 1920s and then for Devonport United before debuting for the Auckland representative team in 1927.