He then joined the Linwood club in Christchurch and represented Canterbury from 1901 to 1902, gaining South Island selection in 1902.

He ended his rugby union career on a sour note, being sent off for foul play in a club match and subsequently suspended for the rest of the season.

He alleged that he had been kicked whilst on the ground and got up and attempted to strike his opponent though no blow as landed.

[7][8] He then joined the New Zealand Northern Union (rugby league) team which had been organised by Albert Henry Baskerville soon after and departed for England on August 9 with the side.

[3]Being an excellent support player despite his large size made him an automatic selection for the professional All Blacks in their 1907–08 tour of Great Britain and Australia.

In April, 1909 he narrowly escaped death at the Gear Meat Company in Petone when extension work they were carrying out saw scaffolding and steel beams collapse.

[18] The Kaikorai club senior side wore white armbands in their match against Varsity B in the weekend following his death in his memory.

Although bizarrely it appears he did not play for them at all as he was 32 when he returned from the tour of Australia and England and then suffered his accident early in 1909 and took some time to recover.