Rugby History

James ‘Big Jim’ Kinvig was a leading player for Onslow throughout the 1950s and early 1960s and he played a number of times for the Wellington representative team. Kinvig was well known as a big goal-kicking forward, whose most usual position was lock but he also played at prop and No.

Dave Harker was one of the best performing and consistent forwards in Wellington club rugby throughout much of the 1950s and early 1960s. Harker was a lock who played for the Athletic club. Harker was Athletic’s captain in 1956 and 1957, forming an effective lineout partnership with All Black Nev MacEwan

Colin Currie is part of the group of Wellington’s most capped hookers with 63 ‘A’ team appearances between 1959-65. He also spent one season in 1960 playing for Auckland and etched himself into that union’s folklore by winning a late tighthead that led to Auckland’s winning try over Canterbury in a

Prop Bill Dick was one of those players that binds the club competition and makes it stronger. The reliable, consistent Dick played in Petone’s front row for more than a decade throughout the 1950s and into the early 1960s and was later President of Petone. Dick was a four-time Jubilee Cup winner