a guide book for teachers, coaches and players, which was first published in 1960, and reissued in 1973 and 1978. In retirement, Sharpley worked with his wife, Una, a noted studio potter, and also developed a home-made pug mill for mixing clay for pottery. Sharpley died on 6 September 1987, and his ashes were buried at Papakura Cemetery. Honorific eponym Sharpley Place, in the Hamilton suburb of Chartwell, is named in Sharpley's honour. References 1914 births 1987 deaths Sportspeople from Dublin (city) Irish emigrants to New Zealand New Zealand male hurdlers Commonwealth Games competitors for New Zealand Athletes (track and field) at the 1938 British Empire Games New Zealand male sprinters New Zealand military personnel of World War II New Zealand prisoners of war in World War II World War II prisoners of war held by Germany New Zealand Army officers New Zealand athletics coaches New Zealand schoolteachers New Zealand potters Burials at Papakura Cemetery 20th-century ceramists