Northland Rugby Union grants application officer, and the heart of Northland rugby's statistics, Ray Armstrong said the idea to list the items on Trade Me came from packing duplicate copies of the programmes.
"I went through and selected one of everything," Armstrong explained.
"There were old Rubyites and Katrina [Williams, NRU office manager] said to me 'give them to me' and she has just gone on with it.
"We've got piles of records and things there and I've kept one of everything. They'll be archived and when we can move into somewhere we'll display them. But, the idea is to finally have a library of them all [at the new premises]."
Armstrong said there could be programmes listed eventually from as far back as 1920, when the NRU broke away from being a sub-union of Auckland and formed its own union.
Armstrong said he did not have a particular person who he hoped would bid.
"It's an interest thing, some people like doing it and some don't," he commented.
Of the 24 auctions listed so far, nine had been bid on at the time the Northern Advocate was printed.
The majority of the auctions listed have a $1 reserve so it would be fair to say now is the time to grab a piece of Northland rugby history.
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