White kicked a word Test record eleven goals when the Kiwis defeated Australia 49-25 at the Brisbane Cricket Ground.[2]
National competitions
Northern Union Cup
Auckland again held the Northern Union Cup at the end of the season. During the season the Wellington also held the trophy.[3]Canterbury's challenge against Wellington ended in tragedy when 21-year-old Papanui winger Donald George Hanlon died from an injury.[3]
Inter-district competition
Wellington defeated Canterbury twice during the season, winning 28-21 at the Show Grounds in Christchurch before winning 20-8 in Wellington in a Northern Union Cup challenge.[3]
Ponsonby won the Auckland Rugby League's Fox Memorial Trophy.[4] They completed "the treble" by also winning the Stormont Shield and Roope Rooster in the same season, as well as winning the Rukutai Shield. Pt Chevalier won the Sharman Cup.
The Marist club was formed, although it had no connection with the Marist Old Boys club that had competed in the 1920s.[3] The club was renamed Marist-Western Suburbs in 1968. In their first season they produced the Kiwi coach, Jim Amos, the Kiwi vice captain Jimmy Haig and another international Bill McKenzie.