A community rugby club on Recreation Drive in Birkenhead, on Auckland's North Shore, formed in 1929 and approaching its 100th year. The club's website says it has produced All Blacks and representative players for Auckland and North Harbour.
The club's history includes a few firsts. The website says it was the first club in New Zealand to embrace team sponsorship, that at one stage it claimed to be the largest rugby club in the world, and that in 1969 it became the first rugby club to travel outside New Zealand. The club was formed at a meeting called by Bob Brown, who is remembered as the 'Father of the Club'.
The website draws on the club's 75th Jubilee book, which records the people and events that shaped the club, including the years when many members went to the armed forces.