Sport
In 1902 he was reported as participating in the Nelson Athletic and Cycling Club Labour Weekend Central School 100 yard and 220 yard running races. Although not placed he appears to have had an interest in sports from an early age.
He was a sportsman of reasonable skill playing representative cricket (1904–1945) for Nelson and Marlborough, hockey (1915–1926) for Marlborough, Nelson, and the South Island (1923), soccer (1905) for Nelson, and golf (1937) for Nelson. He loved horse racing and was Secretary of the Nelson Trotting Club from 1923 and the Nelson Jockey Club (1923–1949).
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