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William (Billy) Kells 1980

Billy Kells is one of the few Waikato
Rugby League players to make the New Zealand
Kiwis.
He began playing rugby league when he was seven years old.
His ability to play the game has earned him a 10-week overseas
tour and six months in England.
He first represented the Waikato when he was 17 when he
was playing for the Ngaruawahia Rugby league Club.
New Zealand representation for Billy came in 1980 when he
was selected to play Australia in New Zealand. The team he played
for was not the top New Zealand side.
But just a few months later he was selected for the New
Zealand Kiwis and spent two-and-a-half months in England and

France.
His exposure during that tour led to a six-month stint in
England in 1982 when he spent the English season playing for
Bradford Northern.
Billy’s second game with Bradford Northern was against
Australia, which they narrowly lost 13-6.

Colin Taylor 1971

Colin Taylor’s golf
career has gone from
strength to strength.
Colin began playing
golf in 1963 with his
parents at the Hukanui
Golf Course when he was
13 years old, sharing the
sport with another interest
- rugby.
But by 1971 Colin
was still playing golf and
that year, at the age of 21,
he was chosen to represent the Waikato.
He became a New Zealand representative in
1980 when he travelled to the United States to play
at the Eisenhower Trophy World Amateur Teams

Championships.
A year later he played in India at the Asian
and Pacific teams championships and, in 1982,
went to Japan for the New Zealand and Japan
team’s championships.
That same year Colin went to Switzerland to
play again in the Eisenhower Trophy world

amateur team’s championships.
Colin’s later success was his selection to tour
Korea with a New Zealand team in September of
1982. He earned that selection by winning the New
Zealand Championships at Auckland in May.

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