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Mirth Solomon
Personal information
Full nameMirth Solomon (née Te Moananui)
Born(1939-04-22)22 April 1939
Paeroa, New Zealand
Died30 October 2023(2023-10-30) (aged 84)
OccupationSchoolteacher
Height1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Spouse
Roger Solomon
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(m. 1964; died 2002)​
Children2
SchoolPaeroa District High School
Queen Victoria School
Netball career
Playing position: GS
Years National team(s) Caps
1963–1967 New Zealand 9
Medal record
Representing  New Zealand
World Netball Championships
Gold medal – first place 1967 Perth Tournament
Silver medal – second place 1963 Eastbourne Tournament

Mirth Solomon (née Te Moananui; 22 April 1939 – 30 October 2023) was a New Zealand netball player who competed for New Zealand in the 1963 and 1967 World Netball Championships, winning a silver and gold medal. After retiring, she played an important role with Netball Rotorua, retiring in 2016 after 15 years as its president. She was inducted into the Māori Sports Hall of Fame in 2003.

Early life and family

Solomon was born Mirth Te Moananui on 22 April 1939 in Paeroa, one of 11 children of Alma Thwaites and Eruini Taharua Te Moananui. Of Māori descent, her iwi (tribal) affiliation is to Tainui. After attending Paeroa District High School, where she participated in a wide range of sports, she was sent in 1956 to Auckland to board at Queen Victoria School, an Anglican school for Māori girls that closed in 2001. In 1958, she went on to study at Auckland Teachers' Training College, obtaining teaching qualifications. Her first teaching job was at the Pukekohe Māori School and this was followed by schools in Pukehina and Mamaku. She married Roger Solomon, a rugby coach, in 1964 and they had two daughters.[1][2]

Netball career

Solomon represented Auckland at under-21 level in 1959. She was selected for the Auckland 'A' team in 1960 before moving to the Rotorua 'A' team. She took part in selection trials for the national team in 1962 and was selected at goal shooter for the team in 1963, travelling by ship to England to take part in the first world championships, which were held in Eastbourne. New Zealand won a silver medal, losing to Australia by one goal in their final match. In the 1967 tournament, held in Perth, Australia, she was a member of the team that won the gold medal. Solomon, who had given birth not long before the event, was the tournament's top scorer. She became known for leading the team in a victory haka, a Māori ceremonial dance.[1][2][3][4][5]

After retiring from competition, Solomon continued to be involved with netball in the Rotorua area. In 2001, she succeeded Taini Jamison, who had been her coach for the 1967 world championships, as president of Netball Rotorua, relinquishing the position in 2016. She also became a senior-level umpire. In 2003, she was inducted into the Māori Sports Hall of Fame.[1][6][7] The 1967 world championship team was inducted into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame in 1996.[8]

Later career

Solomon continued to teach, at Rotorua Girls' High School in 1965, where she taught physical education and geography, and then Sunset Intermediate School in Rotorua from 1966 to 1968. In 1969, Kaitao Intermediate School was established in Rotorua and she became a founding member of staff, retiring as deputy principal in 2005.[1] Her husband, Roger, died in 2002.[9]

Solomon died on 30 October 2023, at the age of 84.[10][11]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Mirth Solomon (nee Te Moananui)". Maori Sports Awards. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
  2. ^ a b "When they were Queens – the 1967 world champion Silver Ferns reunite". locker room. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
  3. ^ "Roger and Mirth Solomon with daughter Kim, meeting Mum after her return from the First World Netball Tournament". Facebook. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
  4. ^ "First World Championship Win for NZ". Silver Ferns. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
  5. ^ "History of the Netball World Cup". Netball Scoop. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
  6. ^ "Solomon ends 15-year tenure at Netball Rotorua". Netball New Zealand. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
  7. ^ "President leaves her role". New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
  8. ^ "Netball, 1967". New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame. Retrieved 16 July 2023.
  9. ^ "Roger Te Rakumia Edward Solomon". Online Cenotaph. Auckland War Memorial Museum. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
  10. ^ "In Remembrance: Mirth Solomon (nee Te Moananui)". Netball New Zealand. Retrieved 21 November 2025.
  11. ^ "Death search: registration number 2023/34072". Births, deaths & marriages online. Department of Internal Affairs. Retrieved 21 November 2025.
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