Life After Football
In addition to his rugby prowess, Messenger was a talented cricketer, canoeist and sailor. After the end of his rugby league career, he ran a couple of hotels in Sydney and Manilla, New South Wales and a banana plantation in Mount Buderim, Queensland. He later worked as a carpenter in the NSW Department of Public Works.
None of his various business opportunities proved to be successful. In his later years, he lived in the New South Wales Rugby Leagues Club. Messenger died in Gunnedah in 1959. He is buried at the Eastern Suburbs Memorial Cemetery . Anglican FM DDD - Grave 321
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