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Bert Laing

Personal information

Full name

Henry Bircher Laing

Born

3 August 1893
Norfolk Island, Australia

Died

25 April 1963 (aged 69)
New Zealand

Playing information

Height

168 cm (5 ft 6 in)

Weight

78.2 kg (12 st 4 lb)

Position

Stand-off

Club
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
1919–22	City Rovers (ARL)	25	7	2	0	25
1922–30	Devonport United	65	21	50	3	169
	Total	90	28	52	3	194
Representative
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
1919–26	Auckland	13	10	4	0	38
1922	Auckland Province	1	2	0	0	6
1919–1925	New Zealand	12	0	2	0	4
1921–22	Australasia	10	3	0	0	9
1926	North Island	1	1	0	0	3

Coaching information

Representative
Years	Team	Gms	W	D	L	W%
1922	Devonport United	14	7	1	6	50
1934–1936	Devonport United	55	25	7	23	45
1938	Manukau	23	15	1	7	65

Henry Bircher "Bert" Laing^[1] (1893-1963) was a New Zealand rugby league player who represented New Zealand and Australasia. His brother, Albert, was also a New Zealand international.^[2]

Playing career

Laing, a standoff from Auckland, represented New Zealand between 1919 and 1925 and was the team's captain in 1925.^[1] However he never played in a Test match for New Zealand, due to the team usually playing New South Wales and Queensland during this period.

In 1921 he was the only New Zealander selected to represent Australasia during the 1921–22 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain.^[3] He scored one try and played in ten matches on tour but was not selected for any of the three Test matches.^[4]

Laing played for the City Rovers from 1919 to 1922 but transferred to Devonport United during the 1922 season. During the 1920s he played some matches with his younger brother Julius for Devonport. He retired at the end of the 1926 season but came out of retirement to play 2 matches for Devonport in 1927 and then four more matches in 1930. Another of his brothers, Albert Laing debuted for Devonport in late 1931 and also went on to play for New Zealand.

Coaching career

Bert coached the North Shore Albions from 1934 to 1936, and the Manukau seniors in 1938.

Death

Bert Laing died on April 25, 1963. He was cremated at Purewa Cemetery and his ashes were returned to his family.^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b LAING, Henry Bircher (Bert) 1919, 1921, 1925 - Kiwi #113 Archived 23 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine nzleague.co.nz
^ LAING, Albert 1932 - Kiwi #217 Archived 23 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine nzleague.co.nz
^ John Coffey, Bernie Wood (2008). 100 years: Māori rugby league, 1908-2008. Huia Publishers. p. 73. ISBN 978-1-86969-331-2.
^ New Zealand Kangaroos - Not Extinct! rl1908.com
^ "Purewa Cemetery and Crematorium". Purewa Cemetery and Crematorium. Retrieved 27 April 2021.