The New Zealand Rugby League will stage Community Roots Camps in Wellington and Auckland over the next two weekends.

The free events fit in with the NZRL's strategy to rejuvenate the game at grass roots level.

Kiwi coach Stephen Kearney, captain Benji Marshall and seven other former internationals will run the first KooGa Junior Elite Roots Camp for 40 selected Sydney-based New Zealand-eligible players tomorrow.

With SPARC's $3 million investment confirmed a week ago, the New Zealand Rugby League is launching the next stage of its strategic and structural reform by advertising for general managers for five of the seven newly-created zones.

New Zealand Rugby League chief executive Jim Doyle today announced the Kiwis' management team for their 2010 international programme.

New Zealand Rugby League chairman Scott Carter today welcomed SPARC's announcement that it would invest a record $3 million dollars in the game over the next three years.

SPARC has announced a $3 million investment in New Zealand Rugby League (NZRL) over three years.

It is the largest single investment by the government in rugby league in the history of the sport in New Zealand.

Auckland, New Zealand, February 10, 2010 - Kiwi vice-captain Adam Blair has capped an exceptional year by today being named the New Zealand Rugby League's 2009 International Player of the Year.

New Zealand will stage its biggest rugby league event in more than 20 years after confirmation today that Auckland's Eden Park - headquarters for the 2011 Rugby World Cup - will host a spectacular Four Nations doubleheader on November 6.

World record-holding legend Ruben Wiki is right back in the game after being named today as the New Zealand Rugby League's new national high performance manager.

Chief executive Jim Doyle said the New Zealand Rugby League's new senior management team was now complete after the appointment today of Trina Tamati in the newly-created role of marketing and sponsorship manager.