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Full name | Hohepa Joe Rātima | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Weight | 16 st (100 kg) [1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Position | Prop | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Hohepa Joe Rātima (birth unknown) is a New Zealand rugby union and professional rugby league footballer who played representative rugby league (RL) for New Zealand. [2]
Rātima is from Ngāti Maniapoto and originally played rugby union, representing King Country Rugby Union. He also represented New Zealand Māori. [3]
He then switched to rugby league, representing Auckland. [3] In 1956 he was part of the Auckland sides that defeated Great Britain 5–4 in 1954 and France 17–15 in 1955. [4]
In 1956 he toured Australia as part of the New Zealand Māori rugby league team. [5]
He was part of the Ponsonby team that won the Auckland Rugby League title in 1958. [6]
He represented New Zealand, playing in two tests against Great Britain in 1958 and then touring Australia in 1959. [2]
Rātima was later the vice president of the Māori Rugby League organisation. [3]