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Wednesday, 28 June 2017

Colin Meads

                  


 Colin Meads



Colin Earl Meads was born at Cambridge in 1936. When he was seven the family moved to a hill country farm near Te Kuiti. Colin grew up having a physical and outdoor life. He played for the first XV at Te Kuiti High School and later for his province of King Country.

Farming was tough with financial hardship and few breaks away. Farm jobs, however, such as scrub cutting, shearing, and fencing kept Colin fit. He became famous as a rugby player. The greatest in the world. He made his All Black debut in 1957. He was an All Black for nearly 14 years, first he loose forward but more constantly as lock. A team-mate gave him the nickname Pinetree because he always give the impression that he was a giant and it stuck. 

The 1960's were a golden era in All Black rugby. Colin was held up as the role model for New Zealand's style on and off the field. At the end of 1999 the New Zealand Rugby Monthly magazine named him New Zealand Player of the Century. He was made a New Zealand Companion of Merit. Colin was, and is, considered to be a role model for values that Kiwis admire.

The calves are then sold through the PGG Wrightson livestock-trading network. All proceeds from the sales go to IHC. Colin says the scheme makes him very proud to be a New Zealander. He says, 'I see first hand what a great job IHC does in our rural community. Our country has come a long way from the institutions of a decade or two ago.

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