Buff Milner

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{{Use New Zealand English|date=August 2015}}

{{Infobox rugby biography

| name = Buff Milner

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| birth_name = Henare Pawhara Milner

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1946|02|12|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Tokomaru Bay, New Zealand

| death_place = London, United Kingdom

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1996|03|02|1946|02|12|df=yes}}

| position = Utility back

| height = {{convert|1.79|m|ftin|0|abbr=on}}

| weight = {{convert|78|kg|lb|abbr=on}}

| repteam1 = {{nrut|New Zealand}}

| repteam2 = New Zealand Māori

| repyears1 = 1970

| repyears2 = 1971–75

| repcaps1 = 1

| repcaps2 = 14

| reppoints1 = 0

| reppoints2 = 6

| province1 = East Coast

| province2 = Wanganui

| province3 = Counties

| provinceyears1 = 1963–65

| provinceyears2 = 1966–72

| provinceyears3 = 1972–78

| provinceapps1 =

| provinceapps2 = 35

| provinceapps3 = 41

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| provincepoints3 = 88

| occupation = Soldier

| relatives = Nehe Milner-Skudder (cousin){{cite web| url = http://stats.allblacks.com/asp/Profile.asp?ABID=1146 |title = Nehe Milner-Skudder | publisher = New Zealand Rugby Union | accessdate = 12 August 2015}}

| school = Tokomaru Bay District High School

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Henare Pawhara "Buff" Milner (12 February 1946 – 2 March 1996) was a New Zealand rugby union player. A utility back, Milner represented East Coast, Wanganui, and Counties at a provincial level, and was a member of the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, in 1970. He played 16 matches for the All Blacks on their tour of South Africa that year, including one international. A professional soldier, Milner died suddenly in 1996 in the United Kingdom while there on an army course.{{cite web| url = http://stats.allblacks.com/asp/Profile.asp?ABID=619 |title = Buff Milner | last = Knight | first = Lindsay | publisher = New Zealand Rugby Union | accessdate = 12 August 2015}}

He was the cousin of Nehe Milner-Skudder, who made his All Black debut in 2015.