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Items returned to former AB Fraser

Nicholas Boyack and Ben Strang

A plea from former All Blacks and Wellington winger Bernie Fraser and his daughter Brooke Fraser for the return of memorabilia held in a storage unit has been answered: the items have been returned.

It turned out that Bernie Fraser, who has lived in Perth for many years and by his own admission ‘‘struggles with technology’’, had not paid the storage fees.

Speaking on the phone from Western Australia yesterday, the 68-year-old said he was ‘‘p...ed off’’ with himself after ignoring an email reminding him to pay for the storage locker. The paperwork listed Fraser’s New Zealand mobile number and contact details for his lawyer, Greg King, who died in 2012.

Fraser had not updated his contact details.

Bernie Fraser played 23 times for New Zealand between 1979 and 1984, while also racking up 124 appearances for Wellington.

‘‘Major items have been located,’’ Brooke Fraser wrote on Facebook yesterday afternoon. ‘‘Thank you to everyone who shared the post and expressed sympathy and concern. We are so thankful to the kind and good person who bought the goods from the seller and immediately contacted us,’’ she wrote.

Police confirmed they had been investigating the unsanctioned sale of family items and memorabilia owned by Bernie Fraser. The items, including memorabilia collected by Fraser during his long rugby career, had been in the storage locker.

The materials were of sentimental value to his family and he was keen to get them back.

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