Macquarie United Rugby League Club president Kevin Maher made the donation during a recent fundraising trip to PNG.

"I was there as part of a group who walked the Kokoda Track as a fundraiser for the Hunter Rescue Helicopter Service," Mr Maher said.

On the last night of his stay, Mr Maher produced a set of superseded Macquarie football jumpers - all in good condition - and presented them to the porters and cooks who had accompanied his group on the track.

He said the heartfelt response from the villagers was extraordinary.

"They were just over the moon, and they sang us a thankyou song," he said.

Rugby league is the national sport in PNG, and the locals' love for the code was on show in just about every open space that Mr Maher and his colleagues encountered between the large expanses of forest and mountain.

"They really are rugby league mad, and in some of the villages that we saw, where the locals live in huts, they'd have posters of rugby league players on their walls," he said.

Some of the posters were of current players, some were of NSW and Qld State of Origin teams, and some were of players long retired.

"But there was a common thread, and that was Mal Meninga," he said.

"Mal is like a god there."

Mr Maher said that since returning home he had maintained email contact with the head guide from his trek, 'Nelson', who reported that the Kagi Scorpions had already played a few matches in their new jumpers.

This is not the first time that Macquarie has established ties with a flegling league community.

"A few years ago we donated a set of jumpers to a club in Fiji," Mr Maher said.

"We just think that it's a good way to promote rugby league with like minded people."