Personal information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Donald Parkinson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 1936 or 1937 (age 87–88) Huntly, New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Playing information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Hooker | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Don Parkinson is a New Zealand former rugby league footballer who represented New Zealand in 1968.
From Huntly, Parkinson played for the Taniwharau Rugby League Club and represented Waikato. [1] A hooker, Parkinson represented the Kiwis in 1968. [2] [3]
In 2005 Parkinson was fined and sentenced to 400 hours' community work after he had mistakenly shot another hunter while out deer hunting. [4]
- ^ Coffey, John and Bernie Wood Auckland, 100 years of rugby league, 1909-2009, 2009. ISBN 978-1-86969-366-4.
- ^ Past Kiwis Caps P Archived 2014-10-29 at archive.today nzrl.co.nz
- ^ Huntly's rugby league legends go on parade stuff.co.nz, 8 December 2008
- ^ Hunter escapes prison after shooting accident nzherald.co.nz, 17 June 2005
Personal information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Donald Parkinson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 1936 or 1937 (age 87–88) Huntly, New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Playing information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Hooker | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Don Parkinson is a New Zealand former rugby league footballer who represented New Zealand in 1968.
From Huntly, Parkinson played for the Taniwharau Rugby League Club and represented Waikato. [1] A hooker, Parkinson represented the Kiwis in 1968. [2] [3]
In 2005 Parkinson was fined and sentenced to 400 hours' community work after he had mistakenly shot another hunter while out deer hunting. [4]
- ^ Coffey, John and Bernie Wood Auckland, 100 years of rugby league, 1909-2009, 2009. ISBN 978-1-86969-366-4.
- ^ Past Kiwis Caps P Archived 2014-10-29 at archive.today nzrl.co.nz
- ^ Huntly's rugby league legends go on parade stuff.co.nz, 8 December 2008
- ^ Hunter escapes prison after shooting accident nzherald.co.nz, 17 June 2005