Mita Mohi
| Personal information | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Mita Hikairo Mohi[1] | |||||
| Born | New Zealand | |||||
| Playing information | ||||||
| Position | Prop | |||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1960–1964 | Marist-Western | |||||
| 1965 | Papanui | |||||
| 1966–1974 | Marist-Western | |||||
| 1975–1977 | Riccarton | |||||
| Total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Representative | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1960–1973 | Canterbury | 42 | ||||
| 1962–1972 | New Zealand Māori | 2 | ||||
| 1962–1963 | South Island | 4 | ||||
| 1972 | New Zealand | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1968 | Southern Zone | 1 | ||||
| Coaching information | ||||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Gms | W | D | L | W% |
| 1977 | Riccarton | |||||
| Source: [2] | ||||||
Mita Hikairo Mohi, MBE, is a New Zealand former rugby league player who represented his country in the 1972 World Cup.
Playing career
Mohi played for the Marist-Western club in the Canterbury Rugby League competition. He represented Canterbury, New Zealand Māori, the Southern Zone and the South Island. In 1962 Mohi was part of the Canterbury side that defeated Auckland 16-13 to win the Northern Union Cup.[3]
Mohi was selected for the New Zealand Kiwis squad in the 1972 World Cup. His first, and only, test match was against France. Mohi injured his calf muscle while performing the haka and had to be replaced.[4] Mohi also played in two other games for New Zealand while in Britain.[5]
He moved to the Riccarton club in 1975 and spent three years at the club, the last as player-coach.[5]
Later years
After retirement from rugby league, Mohi returned to the Bay of Plenty. In the 1995 New Year Honours, he was awarded a MBE for services to Māori youth.[6]
Mohi has run multiple wananga or Taiaha wananga throughout the country for 35 years as well as creating workshops for some New Zealand prisons. He was recognised for his commitment to the martial art Mau rākau at the 2012 National Waiata Māori Music Awards, where he received the Keeper of Traditions Award.[7]
Mohi was also a professional wrestler and prominent in national Māori tennis.[5]
References
- ↑ MOHI, Mita Hikairo - 1972 nzleague.co.nz
- ↑ Mita Mohi rugbyleagueproject.org
- ↑ Nothing better than bettering Auckland The Press, 30 May 2009
- ↑ Top 10 Unusual Injuries With a Kiwi Flavour centenaryofrugbyleague.com.au
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Coffey, John. Canterbury XIII, Christchurch, 1987.
- ↑ John Coffey, Bernie Wood (2008). 100 years: Māori rugby league, 1908-2008. Huia Publishers. p. 188. ISBN 1-86969-331-0, 9781869693312 Check
|isbn=value (help). - ↑ Waiata Māori Awards - 2012 winners. Retrieved 8 January 2013.