Helensville Rugby Club

Club History

Helensville Rugby Club: Rugby has always been important to the people of Helensville and its surrounding districts. A rugby club had existed in some shape or form for many years before the Helensville Districts’s Rugby Football Club was formed in 1970. Rugby was first played in Helensville in the late eighteen hundreds. The first organised game was played in 1890 when North played South Helensville at the old Showgrounds, opposite the site of Kaipara Dairy Company factory. In 1900 the Auckland Rugby Union recorded that the Kaipara Union was affiliated with three clubs – they were Helensville, Kaukapakapa and Te Pua.. They had little success as a union and although they tried again in 1905 there were continual difficulties until the union became firmly established in 1912. Active clubs at this time were Waimauku, Helensville and Kaukapakapa. Parakai affiliated in 1913.

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Golden Jubilee June 4th – 6th 2021 – Celebrating 50 years of Red, Gold & Black

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Helensville Rugby Club

2021

Rex Keane

72 pages

A Scrapbook History of the HDRugby Club

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Golden Jubilee June 4th – 6th 2021 – Celebrating 50 years of Red, Gold & Black

Club:

Helensville Rugby Club

Year:

2021

Author:

Rex Keane

Pages:

72 pages

Notes:

A Scrapbook History of the HDRugby Club

Club History