After the New Zealand side returned home Paki rejoined his City side who had won the Auckland club championship for the first time since 1916. Paki played in their 3 Roope Rooster knockout competition matches which they won over Newton Rangers, Ponsonby United, and Maritime 30–14 in the final. Paki then finished his season in City's Challenge Shield match against Ponsonby on October 15 which saw City wrest the trophy from the holders Ponsonby with a 25–10 victory. The 1922 season was the busiest of Paki's career in terms of matches played. He played 15 times for City who again won the championship and defended the Challenge Shield 3 times. They were however defeated in the Roope Rooster semi final. Paki scored 8 tries during the season for City and kicked possibly the only goal of his career in a 43–13 win over Huntly in their final Challenge Shield match on October 28. New Zealand Māori selection In the middle of the season Paki was selected to play for the New Zealand Māori side on their tour of Australia. He played for the side against Auckland prior to their departure at Carlaw Park in a match they won 28-18 after the side had received a lot of criticism for a poor quality trial match a week earlier. Their first match in Australia was against a very strong Sydney Metropolitan side and they were thrashed 77–13 in front of 35,000 at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Paki played at fullback with Huatahi captaining the side in the centres. The team badly lacked combination as the actual playing side was reasonably strong featuring current or future Kiwi internationals such as Craddock Dufty, Sam Lowrie, Bill Te Whata, and George Gardiner. After the defeat New Zealand Māori were supposed to be playing the full New South Wales side but due to the lopsided score in the first match it was decided to field a New South Wales B team without any of their Australian internationals. Nonetheless the Māori side still suffered a 31–14 defeat with Paki playing in the second row. There was still an enormous crowd on hand with 30,000 present at the Sydney Cricket Ground once more. Paki's next game was against Ipswich on June 14 in what was the 5th match of the tour. They went down 20 points to 3 with Paki again playing in the second row. In front