Locals pad up for a champion bloke: Phillip Hughes

By Christian Knight
Updated November 28 2014 - 2:37pm, first published 12:00am
Former Macksville High School principal Peter O'Neill
Former Macksville High School principal Peter O'Neill

TO AUSTRALIAN cricket fans and those across the globe, Phillip Hughes carved his name as a swashbuckling modern day legend, but in his hometown of Macksville on the NSW North Coast, it was his unaffected attitude to life as much as anything that made him a giant of the community.

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