Sunnyside League Football Club

[2][3] At their first ever annual meeting the following officers were elected:- President, Mr. William Joseph Napier; vice-presidents, Messrs. Wilfred Presley Hayward, Adam Nixon, A. Lloyd, J.L.

Benwell, Dr. Atkinson, William James Jaggs, H. Gilfillan, - Meikle, Joseph Kew Harty, J. Bray, H. Bramley, A. Goldwater, and Jno.

They also endorsed a previous resolution “expressing entire confidence in the executive of the old league, and that the club will support that body in the future”.

Knox had been part of the disqualified Auckland Rugby League board and had been the honorary secretary of the Referees' Association.

The New Zealand Herald wrote that “this rule has been much discussed in league circles of late, and a certain section of players is very anxious to have it done away with.

Their fourth grade team played their North Shore Albions counterparts in poor conditions on the Devonport Domain.

[8] On the same day the Auckland Rugby League held a meeting where Sunnyside nominated a first junior team, along with other entries.

[11] The two teams to take the field for the first time in the clubs history were: Third Grade A – Gordon Spraggon, W. Parker, L. Fraser, Philip Onslow Arthur Willetts, William Roy Jaggs, E. Black, Leslie Arthur O’Leary, Charles Bramwell Sinton, W. Dalton, C. Happer, C. Marks, Gordon Lepine, and Eric Spraggon.

[14] On July 4 Sunnyside and North Shore held a charge day at the Devonport Domain to raise money.

The club held their annual concert in Johnson's Tearooms in Devonport on Saturday night, 19 September with Mr. A. Lloyd, the vice president chairing the evening and several musical items performed.

For their annual meeting their president William Joseph Napier was absent with Mr. Robert Tatton of Auckland Rugby League occupying the chair instead.

secretary, Mr. Gordon W. Spraggon; club captain, Mr. J. Parker; auditor, Mr. W. Knox; committee, messrs. C. Massey, Arthur Gladwyn Fisher, E. Parker, William (Roy) Jaggs, Gordon Lepine, A. Martin, Eric Spraggon, Frank Colebourne, Sydney Wynyard; delegate to the Advisory Board, Mr. William O'Shaugnessy”.

[20] The club trained on Saturday afternoons in the preseason and had 25 new playing members with the newly formed 5th grade competition said to be bringing in many of them.

[24] During the season the majority of the Sunnyside 3rd grade B team enlisted in the war effort and so their remaining players transferred to their A side.

[27] The 4th grade championship winning team was N.M. Robertson, H.M. Ansenne, J.J. Bolger, Arthur G. Fisher, Sydney Wynyard, H. Murphy, J.E.

On August 28 both teams wore black arm bands after learning of the death of player Sergeant Major Charles Sinton who had been killed at the Dardanelles.

Jockeys team at Victoria Park as a curtain-raiser to the Roope Rooster final between North Shore Albions and Newton Rangers.

There were several toasts made to various parts of the rugby league community such as the Junior Advisory Board, the Referees Association, and other clubs, along with “King”, and “our absent members at the Front”.

The champion third and fourth grade teams were presented with their caps by the Auckland Rugby League chairman, Mr. Richard (Dick) Benson.

Several entertainment items were performed while secretary Mr. William O'Shaughnessy, was presented with “a handsome traveling bag and a set of military brushes”.

Fifteen new members were elected and “reference was made to the excellent work performed by the retiring secretary and treasurer, Mr. [William] O’Shaughnessy, who is now in Trentham training camp”.

William Charles Dalton, a Sunnyside player, and saddler by trade, died whilst at war on November 8, 1918 from pneumonia aged 25.

Their annual meeting was held on Friday, March 14 where the Mayor of Devonport, Mr. John Henderson, unveiled the club's roll of honour on a “handsome plaque” which contained 87 names, of which 19 had been killed in the war.

[41] At the meeting they decided to form a social club which would be opened in April in Hayward's Buildings, Victoria Road in Devonport.

The following were elected officers:- Patron, Sir Joseph G. Ward; president, Mr. W. P. Hayward; club captain, Mr. William J. O'Shaungnessy; hon.

secretary, Mr. C. Hand; auditor, Mr. W. Wilson; club delegate, Mr. William J. O’Shaughnessy; executive, Messrs. C. Stone, H. Dee, J. Carnahan, J. Buchanan, R. Bailey, E. Brown, W. Chaplin, S. Anderson, and A.

[44] The championship winning team which had been listed for a June 14 match was L. Fraser, Bertie Victor Emerali, W. Robinson, Harry Douglas, G. Godicke, H. Dee, F. Carnahan, Nelson Samuel Fraser, Philip Onslow Arthur Willetts, E. Harvey, J. Buchanan, C. Wheeler, H. Murphy, and Gordon Lepine.

The following officers were elected:- Patron, the Mayor of Devonport, Mr. Horace Stephen Waterlow King; vice patrons, Messrs C. Court and W. Arnold; president, Mr. J. Henderson; vice-presidents, all the vice-presidents of both the defunct clubs; treasurer, Mr. G. Stewart; club captain, Mr. Sydney Wynyard; delegate to the Auckland Rugby League, Mr. William O'Shaughnessy; delegate to the Junior Advisory Board.

Young; auditor, Mr. Robert Arthur Spinley; committee, Messrs’ C. Stone, George Seagar, Gordon Spraggon, C. Davis, J. Percival, H. Mann, W.A.