Herbert Pearce
{{Short description|New Zealand rugby league footballer}}
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Herbert John Pearce (3 April 1908 – 4 November 1955) was a New Zealand rugby league player who represented New Zealand.
Early life
Pearce was born, raised and educated in Christchurch.
Playing career
After playing rugby league for the Marist Club and Canterbury from 1926 to 1927, Pearce moved south to Dunedin and joined the Christian Brothers Rugby League Club. Considered at the time to be one of the fastest league wingers in the country, Pearce represented Otago in 1928 and 1929 before gaining national selection in 1930, when the New Zealand side toured Australia,{{cite web|url=http://www.nzleague.co.nz/players/kiwi_details/219|title=Herbert John Pearce|date=|website=nzleague.co.nz|publisher=|accessdate=10 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310130727/http://www.nzleague.co.nz/players/kiwi_details/219 |archive-date=10 March 2016}}{{cite news|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/otago-witness/1930/07/01/38 |title=Representatives of the New Zealand Rugby League team chosen to tour Australia |newspaper=Otago Witness |date=1 July 1930 |page=38}} playing in two matches against New South Wales. He also represented the South Island in 1930.{{cite news|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19300616.2.139 |title=Inter-island league: Interesting drawn game |newspaper=New Zealand Herald |date=16 June 1930 |page=12 }}
He later drowned in Foveaux Strait in 1955, and was buried at Bluff Cemetery.{{cite web|url=https://icc.govt.nz/cemetery-result/?id=34378 |title=Cemetery result|date=|website=|publisher=Invercargill City Council|access-date=22 July 2024}}{{additional citation needed|date=July 2024 |reason=cause and location of death not in citation}}
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Category:Rugby league players from Christchurch
Category:New Zealand rugby league players
Category:New Zealand national rugby league team players
Category:Otago rugby league team players
Category:Deaths by drowning in New Zealand