NORTHCOTE AND BIRKENHEAD RUGBY UNION - 1929-1985
An inaugural meeting was held on 3rd April 1929 when the names of fifty-five intending players were handed to the meeting. The appropriate teams were entered in the Auckland Rugby Union competitions.
The Club had no headquarters and it was not until 1935 that the final moves were made to establish a “Home”. In this year the Club purchased in the name of two trustees a ¼ acre property in Nelson Avenue, Northcote. In 1937 the former training shed of the Ellerslie Rugby Club was acquired and re-erected on our “freehold” property.
Growth was stunted over the next few years due to World War II. It should be recorded that many Club members went overseas and in the case of the third grade who won the Open Championship I 1939 no less than half the team marched into camp in Club Blazers to join the 2nd Echelon and two other members joined the Navy.
