competition. He scored two tries for them during the season which saw City win both the first grade championship and also the Roope Rooster. In 1921 Tancred was to tour Australia again. In a match prior to the tour he played for New Zealand against Auckland in front of 11,000 spectators at the Auckland Domain. New Zealand won by 22 points to 16 with Tancred scoring a try after a "smart dash". He was named captain for the tour and he did this on field in at least 5 of the 8 matches. He played all his matches in the hooker position. His debut leading the side did not go well with New Zealand hammered 9-56 by a strong New South Wales Firsts side. He captained New Zealand again in a 25-12 win over Queensland Firsts, before losses to the same opponents 16-21, and 3-8. It is unknown if he took part in the matches with Wide Bay and Stanthorpe as there are no team lists for the matches. However he again captained New Zealand in the final tour match against Newcastle Firsts which New Zealand won 27-14. After the tour was over Tancred coached the Wellington team prior to their match with Auckland. In 1922 he gave the game away in New Zealand and was reportedly going into business in Sydney. Businessman Tancred's great-grandfather was a butcher. His grandfather Peter established himself as a wholesale butcher in Kent Street, Sydney in 1844 before travelling to the US to further his prospects. Peter's son Thomas, Henry's father, branched out in 1869 and started a wholesale and retail meat business on Glebe Island in Sydney before taking the family to New Zealand. In the 1920s Henry and his six brothers returned to Sydney. Under Henry's leadership, they established the Tancred Brothers meat business which by 1956 was the listed company, Tancred Bros Industries Limited, one of Australia's largest wholesale butchering firms. Henry was founding chairman and managing director of the business from 1932 till 1959 and from 1946–61 was a member of the Meat Board, the national producer-owned company that regulated and promoted the meat industry in Australia. Racing interests He was elected to the Committee of the Sydney Turf Club in 1941, appointed Vice-Chairman in 1945, served as Chairman from 1953–59, and retired from the Committee in 1961. He owned the champion New Zealand bred stallion High Caste. In 2007