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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23977, 18 June 1943, Page 4

Thirteen years of senior Rugby, including 10 in New Zealand provincial, Australian state, and New Zealand Army teams, have not dampened the active enthusiasm of Major Y. K. Fleming, formerly of Palmerston North and now with the New Zealanders in the Pacific Forces, wrote the Official War Correspondent, N.Z.E.F., from New Caledonia, on June 11. Hawke’s Bay sportsmen will remember York Fleming back in 1931, 1932, and 1933, when he played for Hastings Old Boys in club football there. He was a regular member of the Manawatu representative side for four years, in 1935, 1937, 1938, and 1939, and was nominated for the 1935 and 1937 New Zealand trials. But the big thing about York Fleming is the variety of his Rugby career outside New Zealand. In Australia during 1934. he was selected as a member of the Victorian State side, and two years later, returning.to the Commonwealth, played for New South Wales. His Rugby in Australia took him pn tours from Brisbane to Adelaide, as in New Zealand it took him touring from Auckland to Bluff. Then the war came, and York Fleming enlisted and went to the Middle East. There he played for the battalion that won the Freyberg Cup for inter-unit competition within the New Zealand Division, and beat a strong Welsh side in 1940 by 11 to 0.