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where he was a member of the 1st XV between 1897 and 1898. He was also an excellent rower and a member of the Awarua
Boating Club which won the New Zealand Championship four. A chemist, Hamilton was for many years in charge of the UFS dispensary in Bluff, leaving in 1920 to set up business in
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Auckland, where he worked as a pharmacist. In April 1925, after a period in which he had had trouble sleeping, he took an accidental overdose of morphine and died.
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for striking along with the rest of his team and the opposition, Hughes' Britannia club, when they refused to play a match due to ground conditions and the weather with
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Hamilton led the team by scoring 110 runs. He was one of three players nominated by the Southland Cricket Association for the
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decreed that any player who had played any game under the "Northern" rules was to be regarded as a professional and was to be expelled.
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and was part of the first ever provincial game of rugby league in the South Island when he played for
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being hit by a blizzard. However, whilst suspended the teams played a benefit match under the new
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for three consecutive seasons. It was in his last year, 1908, that he would become an All Black.
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Born in Bluff (then known as
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Hamilton was one of the principal players, along with fellow All Black
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Pirates club in Invercargill, Hamilton played for the
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in 1920. In the 1910-11 season
Southland became the first
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Southland against the
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