Pita Ririnui played for the Manukau rugby league club in Auckland from 1938 to 1947 and represented Auckland from 1938 to 1945 as well as Auckland Māori from 1938 to 1945 and New Zealand Māori in 1947
Present day Tauranga Domain.
The 1939 touring New Zealand team with Ririnui in the back row, second from the right.
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George Gordon Mitchell played for the Richmond Rovers rugby league club in Auckland from 1937 to 1942 and represented Auckland from 1937 to 1947 as well as Auckland Māori from 1937 to 1945 and New Zea
Pita Ririnui
…side for their now annual game(s) against Auckland Pākehā, to be played on June 8 for the Carlaw Memorial Trophy. He was named in the second row with George Mitchell who ironically was not Māori, having an English father and Samoan mother. They were opposed in the Pākehā second row by Harold Milliken (Papakura) and…
Richmond Rovers, winners of the championship for the third time.
Richmond on 3 July when they played Mount Albert. Mitchell is 3rd from the left in the back row.