page_title: George Adkins
hierarchical_section_title: George Adkins
caption_attribution_description: English: Archives New Zealand Reference: ACGO 8333 IA1 1350 / 15/11/59182
context_page_description: George Thomas Augustus Adkins was a New Zealand rugby union player. A prop, Adkins represented South Canterbury at a provincial level, and was a member of the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, from 1935 to 1936. He never played a full test but was part of the 1935–36 New Zealand rugby union tour of Britain, Ireland and Canada playing against local sides.
  A draper before serving with the RNZAF in the Pacific during World War II, Adkins was subsequently a senior civil servant with the Department of Labour.
  Adkins died in Timaru on 24 May 1976.
context_section_description: George Thomas Augustus Adkins (21 August 1910 – 24 May 1976) was a New Zealand rugby union player. A prop, Adkins represented South Canterbury at a provincial level, and was a member of the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, from 1935 to 1936. He never played a full test but was part of the 1935–36 New Zealand rugby union tour of Britain, Ireland and Canada playing against local sides.
  A draper before serving with the RNZAF in the Pacific during World War II, Adkins was subsequently a senior civil servant with the Department of Labour.
  Adkins died in Timaru on 24 May 1976.
caption: Adkins in 1935
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