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'I was lucky to be born when I was': Rugby legend recognised
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Earle Kirton has been made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit. Photo / Photosport
Earle Kirton’s appointment as an officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the King’s Birthday Honours list is a richly reserved reward for a rugby career that combined huge ability on the field, extraordinary resilience and selectorial gifts.
The statistics tell one story. He
played 41 times for New Zealand, including 13 tests. He was a selector of one of the greatest All Blacks teams to not win a World Cup, the 1995 side in South Africa.
Athletes, artists and academics recognised in King's Birthday Honours
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Of the recipients, 83 were women and 95 were men. The highest area of contribution was for services to the community, voluntary and local services followed by services to education, health and sports and recreation.
There were six new knights and dames – Susan Hassall, who was the first woman to be appointed headmaster at a boy's state school, became a dame for her services to education along with Professor Elizabeth Rata, a wellknown sociologist at the University of Auckland, who was also awarded for her services to education.
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