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| Full name | Donald Parkinson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 1 October 1936 Huntly, New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Hooker | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Don Parkinson is a New Zealand former rugby league footballer who represented New Zealand in 1968.
From Huntly, Parkinson played for the Taniwharau Rugby League Club and represented Waikato. [1] A hooker, Parkinson represented the Kiwis in 1968. [2] [3]
In 2005 Parkinson was fined and sentenced to 400 hours' community work after he had mistakenly shot another hunter while out deer hunting. [4]