A return match was played at Petone Recreation Ground, Petone on 12 September and was drawn 13-all in front of 4,000 spectators.
Gray returned to New Zealand to work for Unilever in Petone as its personnel director until 1979, at which time he retired.
Hutt Park Railway Station, Petone, a closed railway station on the Hutt Park Railway in New Zealand
On 20 June 1954, shortly after her mother and stepfather had reported her as missing, a 15½-year-old girl turned up at the local police station in the former Hutt Valley borough of Petone.
After serving with British military units during the Second Anglo-Boer War in South Africa, he worked as an engineering fitter with the New Zealand Railways Department workshops at Petone.
Some of New Zealand's first State housing was constructed in Petone in 1906, with some of the original houses remaining in good condition.
The train stops at all stations along the line from Masterton to Upper Hutt, before running along the Hutt Valley Line to Wellington station stopping only at Waterloo and Petone stations.
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In Wellington, New Zealand, unused sides can be found at two stations on the Hutt Valley Line: Waterloo and Petone.