Albert Jack Reece (1927 – 10 September 1966) was a New Zealand
hockey
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player and
cricket
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er, and umpire at both sports.
Reece played hockey for Canterbury from 1946 to 1956, and represented
New Zealand
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in 1948. He later became a hockey umpire, officiating in a Test between New Zealand and Pakistan in 1958.
Reece played in one first-class match for
Canterbury
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in 1947/48. He umpired eight first-class matches, all of them at
Lancaster Park
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,
Christchurch
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, between 1959 and 1962.
Illness deprived him of his sight in the early 1960s, and he died in September 1966, aged 39.