Aiden Cairns was a rugby league

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 player in the Australia

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n competition, the New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership.

A three-quarter , Cairns, played in 16 matches for the Eastern Suburbs

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 and 23 for the North Sydney

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 club. In the 1938 season Cairns was a try

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scorer in the Eastern Suburbs side that was defeated by Canterbury in that year's premiership final. In 1941, '42 and '44 seasons Cairns played for the North Sydney club.