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® There was discussion on the practicality of school baths being built. ® Cocoa and sugar used at the school to be paid for by Committee July ® A PTA was formed for the first time at the school. The following were elected to the committee: Mr. F Harris (chairman), Mrs. C Lewis (secretary/treasurer), Mr. G Drayton (representing the School Committee), Mr. H D Hills, Mr. G Tahakura, Mr. P Lawless, Mr. J Fisher, Mrs. H MacDonald, Mrs. Steele, Mrs. M Putere, Mrs. D Cope. ® Miss F. Thomas resigned. Miss M. Johnson commenced as uncertificated relieving assistant. ® PTA to take over the financing of the sugar and cocoa from the School Committee. ® An approach was made to the milk vendor, Mr Cope, requesting a later deliver of the school milk supply so that it did not sit out in the sun for so long before being collected by the children. An arrangement to be made with Mr Lawless.

August ® A Calf Club was started with a start of 10 claves. Club day scheduled for October.

September ® Discussion with Mr Frank Harris of the school PTA concerning the transporrt of primary and post primary children who have to travel over three miles to school each day. It was resolved to complete a list of names of children together with a map of the district and forward it to the transport officer of the South Auckland Education Board.

October ® A bonfire to be held in Valentines paddock for Guy Fawkes night, the fire to be built by Committee ® A Calf Club & Pets Day was held at the school. Mrs. H. Hills acted as adult supervisor and organiser. Calves were entered by the following children: Ron Cope (senior), Kelvin Yates (senior), Mary Sue Hills (junior), Ruth Hills (junior) and Barbara Hills (junior). Mr. Moore of Taupiri was the judge. The results were as follows: Leading (senior) 1st Kelvin Yates, 2nd Ron Cope.

Leading (junior) 1st Mary Sue Hills, 2nd Barbara Hills, 3rd Ruth Hills.

Leading Champion Kelvin Yates.

Rearing (senior) 1st Kelvin Yates, 2nd Ron Cope.

Rearing (junior) 1st Ruth Hills, 2nd Mary Sue Hills, 3rd Barbara Hills.

Rearing Champion Ruth Hills.

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Type (light) 1st Kelvin Yates, 2nd Ruth Hills, 3rd= Ron Cope & Barbara Hills.

Type (heavy) Merit Award to Mary Sue Hills.

In the afternoon a steeplechase was held over Mr. Cronin’s and Mr. Valentine’s properties. The winners were: Sarah Watene (senior) 9 minutes 12 seconds and Myrtle Watene (junior) 7 minutes 10 seconds.

Prizes for Pets (Animals) Lois Grut (cat) and Jimmy Yates (lamb).

Prizes for Pets (Birds) Ron Cope (pigeons) and Mary Sue Hills (canary).

Miss M. Johnson’s employment was terminated on this date as a permanent assistant has been appointed. During her term, Miss Johnson showed herself to be a capable and conscientious worker, whose teaching qualities and techniques would have done credit to a certified teacher.

November ® Mrs. L. Wilson commenced as permanent assistant. ® Sarah Watene, Form II, has been granted a four-year scholarship to Queen Victoria Maori College. This is the first scholarship gained from this school. ® A successful evening was organised in the school by the PTA. Mr. Lawless and Mrs. Wilson gave an outline of the day’s work in the school. Mr. R. Cates, Phys Ed Officer, showed films on the teaching of swimming and artificial respiration, and a Bring & Buy, which raised the sum of £5/3/- was held. ® A working bee was held to put in a tile drain along the southern edge of the tennis court. Workers were Messrs Grut, Yates, Watene, Johnson and Lawless. ® A working bee was held to construct a sandpit. Workers were Messrs Harris, Watene, Tahakura, Fisher, Steele, Lewis and Lawless. ® Messrs Lewis and Lawless completed the sandpit and poured some patching concrete at the tarseal.

December ® School Picnic held at Hamilton Lake. ® Teacher, children and PTA members from Pukekapia school came today for an afternoon. The visitors were shown the school and two games of softball were played.

Afternoon tea was provided by ladies of the Kimihia PTA. There was a good attendance of parents to join in the afternoon’s activities.

Results: A team - Pukekapia 29, Kimihia 22.

B team - Pukekapia 30, Kimihia 22. ® An end of year Christmas Party was held in the school and was combined with an end of term concert. Items of interest were: Play ‘The Raft’ by F II - S4 pupils. Play ‘One Red Cherry’ by S1, S2, S3 pupils written and produced by pupil Sarah Watene. This play was unique in that Sarah had written each part to suit the individual talents and abilities of each cast member. Hula Hoop item performers were Ian Harris (S3), David Lewis (S1), Ann Valentine (P4) and Marie Gorinski (P1). The Skiffle Group incorporated most of the FII - S4 pupils.

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A number of pupils attending Jimmy Lawless’ birthday party at the school dwelling.

Jimmy is the ‘pirate’ leaning on the cannon. Each arriving guest was welcomed aboard with a firecracker fired up in the cannon.

The school building viewed from underneath the large gum tree which seasonally shed its bark and made a mess of the grassed area in its vicinity. The trunk was too thick and the lower branches were too high to allow climbing, although one branch swung tantalising near the ground where only the taller pupils could take advantage of it.

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A clash of heads in a rugby game involving Brian Grut and Ian Harris resulted in teacher Pat Lawless taking the two boys into Huntly to Dr Willoughby for scalp repairs.

After dropping Jimmy off at home, and on the way to do the same to Brian, Pat Lawless came across Myrtle and Phillip Watene who had come off the bike on the way home down the hill at the back of the school and were badly abraded. This saw another trip into the Doctor for treatment.

After the last visit the doctor commented “This is the fourth child from Kimihia school I have treated today. The discipline out there must be good!”

Pupils living over a specified distance from school could be taxied in at the Ministry’s expense. The Watene’s and Grut’s mileage from gate to gate was just under that specified, so Dick Yates and Pat Lawless re-measured from farmhouse door to schoolroom door and found the extra required mileage to authorise a taxi service for those pupils!

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Songs of 1958 1 Magic Moments (Perry Como), 2 All I Have to do is Dream (Everly Brothers), 3 Who's Sorry Now (Connie Francis), 4 Stupid Cupid (Connie Francis), 5 When (Kalin Twins), 6 Whole Lotta Woman (Marvin Rainwater), 7 Hoots Mon (Lord Rockingham's XI), 8 Jailhouse Rock (Elvis Presley), 9 The Story of My Life (Michael Holliday), 10 On The Street Where You Live (Vic Damone), 11 It's Only Make Believe (Conway Twitty), 12 Great Balls of Fire (Jerry Lee Lewis), 13 Mary's Boy Child (Harry Belafonte), 14 Tom Hark (Elias and his Zigzag Jive Flutes), 15 Volare (Dean Martin), 16 He's Making Eyes at Me (Johnny Otis Show), 17 Big Man (Four Preps), 18 Hard Headed Woman (Elvis Presley), 19 Return to Me (Dean Martin ), 20 Bird Dog (Everly Brothers), 21 Wake Up Little Susie (Everly Brothers), 22 Move It (Cliff Richard), 23 Lollipop (Mudlarks), 24 King Creole (Elvis Presley), 25 Don't (Elvis Presley), 26 Tom Dooley (Lonnie Donegan), 27 You Need Hands / Tulips From Amsterdam (Max Bygraves), 28 At The Hop (Danny and the Juniors), 29 My Ring Around Your Neck (Elvis Presley), 30 My Special Angel (Malcolm Vaughan), 31 Stairway of Love (Michael Holliday).

Preparing for the fancy dress parade.

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Fancy Dress parade led by Terry Drayton.

Adults at the school fancy dress evening.

Rear: _________, May Valentine, Dave Hall, Jean Jones, Patti Green, Edna Yates, _________, _________.

Middle: Marilyn Giles, Myra Jones, Johnny Jones, Valerie Davidson, Reg Crampton.

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__________, __________, Jimmy Yates.

Dick Yates, Rosie Holland and Tom Holland.

Classroom furniture for spectators at the calf club day.

Calf Club 1958 Kelvin Yates, Ian Harris, Winnie Wilson, John Watene, Charlie Tohe, Mere Johnson, May Ahchu and Glenis Yates.

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Musical Chairs in the Junior Classroom at a social.

School Christmas party festivities.

Bon Grut holding the sticky buns cord while Kelvin Yates gets a mouthful. Jimmy Yates and Velma MacDonald look on.

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May Achu with award at Calf Club 1958.

Rear is Frank Harris, Dick Yates and ______________.

Left: The sandpit constructed for the Juniors.

Below: Lunchtime in front of the Junior Prefab.

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The Kimihia School float ready to enter the Tainui Bridge opening parade in Huntly.

Float Flowers from left: Natalie Watene, Lorraine Cope, Sheryl Grut, Marie Gorinski and Susan Clarke.

Driver Bon Grut and the Kimihia floral float ready for the Tainui Bridge opening parade.

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Huntly College semi-submerged in the 1958 flood.

Above & Below: Locals establish a playground in Russell Road. The Kimihia School in the far distance is framed by the swing supports (above).

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1959 Events þ Kimihia purchases first official school stamp “Go and Seek”. þ USSR launches monkeys into space. þ Experimental television transmissions in Auckland. þ Auckland Harbour Bridge open to pedestrians for one day before official opening for vehicles. þ Rongotai airport reopens with world’s first precisionapproach radar.

ENROLMENTS 1959 GOSINSKI, Marie ................................. February WILSON, Cynthia ................................. February YATES, James Allan ............................. February EPERE, Patricia......................................... March JACOBS, Thomas...................................... March MOLTZEN, Lynnette ................................ March AH CHU, May............................................. April HILLS, Barbara ........................................... April LEWIS, Paul Clyde....................................... June TINNEY, Kevin............................................ June CLARKE, Gary William................................ July CLARKE, Wayne Charles ............................. July JOHNSON, Georgina .................................... July JOHNSON, Mary .......................................... July JOHNSON, Pauline ....................................... July JOHNSON, Richard ...................................... July TWEEDIE, Clifford George ..................... August GRAF, Lorraine .......................................October GRUT, Cheryl Louise.......................... November MOLTZEN, Gary ................................ November MOLTZEN, Lloyd............................... November RANGI, Graeme Dennis ...................... November TUPUHI, Glen Andrew ....................... November TUPUHI, Peter .................................... November

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1959 Tunes of '59.

1 Living Doll (Cliff Richard and the Shadows), 2 A Fool Such as I (Elvis Presley), 3 I Need Your Love Tonight (Elvis Presley), 4 Travellin' Light (Cliff Richard and the Shadows), 5 Dream Lover (Bobby Darin), 6 Only Sixteen (Craig Douglas), 7 As I Love You (Shirley Bassey), 8 Side Saddle (Russ Conway), 9 It Doesn't Matter Any More (Buddy Hall), 10 One Night (Elvis Presley), 11 It's Only Make Believe (Conway Twitty), 12 Mack the Knife (Bobby Darin), 13 What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For (Emile Ford and the Checkmates), 14 Roulette (Russ Conway), 15 Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (Platters), 16 Here Comes Summer (Jerry Keller), 17 The Day The Rains Came (Jane Morgan), 18 Battle of New Orleans (Lonnie Donegan), 19 A Teenager in Love (Marty Wilde), 20 To Know Him Is To Love Him (Teddy Beam), 21 Baby Face (Little Richard), 22 'Til I Kissed You (Everly Brothers), 23 Oh Carol (Neil Sedaka), 24 Kiss Me Honey Honey Kiss Me (Shirley Bassey), 25 A Pub With No Beer (Slim Dusty), 26 Lipstick on Your Collar (Connie Francis), 27 Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour (Lonnie Donegan), 28 Tom Dooley (Lonnie Donegan), 29 Seven Little Girls Sitting on the Back Seat (Avons).

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February ® During the Christmas holidays the following work was done at the school: Toilets extended to two pans each; new incinerator installed; concrete paths built around the Prefab’ classroom; new blackboards erected in main classroom; toilets painted. ® The first official school stamp was purchased. The stamp incorporates the school motto, chosen at the Jubilee celebrations 1957, “Go and Seek”, which is a free translation of the Maori word Kimihia.

March ® School Committee for the 1959-60 term were: ] Mr K.J.Fisher, G.Drayton, J.Von Grut, R.Yates and A.Vercoe. ® Insurance arranged for school as no cover has been made to this date. ® Standard 2 to Form 2 were taken to the Mountley Stud Piggeries, on an educational visit. Transport was provided by the PTA. Cars used belonged to F. Harris, R. Yates, D. Tweedie and J. Fisher. ® New books, Social Studies, Nature Study and General Reading were purchased to the value of £19/8/-. ® A Sports Day, combining athletics, etc. was held at the school. Races were run on a straight 50 yard track and a 200 yard circular track. A jumping pit was dug behind the tennis court. All classes participated from P1 - FII. Results: 25 yards Tiny Tots: 1st Steven Graf, 2nd Stuart White, 3rd Jimmy Yates 25 yards Primers - 1st Kevin Fisher, 2nd Wayne Watene, 3rd Natalie Watene 25 yards Std 1 1st David Cope, 2nd Brian Harris 50 yards Tiny Tots - 1st Steven Graf, 2nd Stuart White, 3rd Jimmy Yates 50 yards Primers - 1st Kevin Fisher, 2nd Natalie Watene, 3rd Wayne Watene 50 yards Std 1 1st David Cope, 2nd Ann Valentine 50 yards 8-9 years - 1st= Charlie Tohe & Myrtle Watene, 3rd Billy Valentine 50 yards 10-11 years - 1st Brian Grut, 2nd Kelvin Yates, 3rd Phillip Watene 50 yards 11-12 years girls 1st Christine MacDonald, 2nd Glenis Yates 5 yards 12 year boys 1st John Watene, 2nd George Watene, 3rd Joe Tohe 100 yards Std 1 1st Brian Harris, 2nd David Cope 100 yards 8-9 years - 1st Martin Tweedie, 2nd=Myrtle Watene & Billy Valentine

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100 yards 10-11 years 1st Kelvin Yates, 2nd Brian Grut, 3rd Phillip Watene 100yards 11-12 years girls 1st Glenis Yates, 2nd Christine MacDonald 10 yards 12 year boys 1st John Watene, 2nd George Watene, 3rd Joe Tohe 20 yards 8-9 years 1st Martin Tweedie, 2nd Charlie Tohe, 3rd Billy Valentine 220 yards 10-11 years 1st Brian Grut, 2nd Kelvin Yates, 3rd Phillip Watene 220 yards 11-12 years girls 1st Christine MacDonald, 2nd Glenis Yates 220 yards 12 year boys - 1st John Watene, 2nd George Watene, 3rd Joe Tohe 440 yards 8-9 years 1st Charlie Tohe, 2nd Billy Valentine, 3rd Martin Tweedie 440 yards 10-11 years 1st Brian Grut, 2nd Kelvin Yates 440 yards 11-12 years girls - 1st Glenis Yates, 2nd Christine MacDonald 440 yards 12 year boys - 1st John Watene, 2nd George Watene, 3rd Joe Tohe Mile Open Handicap 1st Billy Valentine, 2nd Charlie Tohe, 3rd John Watene High Jump Std 1 1st David Cope (2’4”) High Jump 8-9 years 1st Charlie Tohe (2’10”), 2nd Billy Valentine, 3rd Jim Lawless High Jump 10-11 years - 1st Brian Grut (3’1”), 2nd Kelvin Yates, 3rd Ian Harris High Jump 11-12 years girls 1st= Christine MacDonald & Glenis Yates (3’0”), 3rd Winnie Wilson High Jump 12 year boys - 1st Tom Jacobs (3’5”), 2nd John Watene, 3rd George Watene Standing Broad Jump Tiny Tots 1st Stuart White, 2nd Steven Graf, 3rd Natalie Watene Standing Broad Jump Primers 1st Wayne Watene, 2nd Kevin Fisher, 3rd Natalie Watene Standing Broad Jump S1 - 1st Ann Valentine, 2nd Brian Harris, 3rd Lawrence Watene Standing Broad Jump 8-9 years 1st Charlie Tohe, 2nd Myrtle Watene, 3rd Jim Lawless

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Christine MacDonald and Terry Drayton in costume with mothers Velma MacDonald and Miriam Drayton in the background.

Standing Broad Jump 10-11 years 1st Brian Grut, 2nd Ian Harris, 3rd Kelvin Yates Standing Broad Jump 11-12 years girls 1st Glenis Yates, 2nd Christine MacDonald Standing Broad Jump 12 year boys 1st John Watene, 2nd Joe Tohe, 3rd George Watene Long Jump Tiny Tots 1st Steven Graf, 2nd Jimmy Yates, 3rd Marie Gorinski Long Jump Primers 1st Wayne Watene, 2nd Kevin Fisher, 3rd Natalie Watene Long Jump Std 1 1st Brian Harris, 2nd David Cope, 3rd Lawrence Watene Long Jump 8-9 years 1st Charlie Tohe, 2nd Peter Tupuhi, 3rd Billy Valentine Long Jump 10-11 years 1st Phillip Watene, 2nd Brian Grut, 3rd Ian Harris

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Long Jump 11-12 years girls 1st Glenis Yates, 2nd Christine MacDonald, 3rd Winnie Wilson Long Jump 12 year boys 1st John Watene, 2nd Joe Fisher, 3rd George Watene Throwing Cricket Ball Tiny Tots Jimmy Yates Throwing Cricket Ball Primers Kevin Fisher Throwing Cricket Ball Std 1 Brian Harris Throwing Cricket Ball 8-9 years Charlie Tohe Throwing Cricket Ball 10-11 years Kelvin Yates Throwing Cricket Ball 11-12 years girls Glenis Yates Throwing Cricket Ball 12 year boys Joe Tohe Throwing Softball 8-9 years Charlie Tohe Throwing Softball 10-11 years Brian Grut Throwing Softball 11-12 years girls Glenis Yates Throwing Softball 12 year boys Joe Tohe Relays, Primers Baton 1st Kiwi, 2nd Pigeon, 3rd Moa Relays, Primers Large Ball 1st Pigeon, 2nd Moa, 3rd Kiwi Relays, Primers Small Ball 1st Kiwi, 2nd Moa, 3rd Pigeon House Relays (All Classes) No.1 1st Moa, 2nd Pigeon, 3rd Kiwi House Relays (All Classes) No.2 1st Moa, 2nd= Pigeon & Kiwi Obstacle Relay 1st Kiwi, 2nd Moa, 3rd Pigeon Total House Points for the day were Moa 230, Kiwi 209, Pigeon 172 April 速 The Committee elected K.J.Fisher as Chairman and A.G.Vercoe as Secretary. 速 The senior pupils travelled to Pukekapia to play softball.

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innings, Kimihia 17. Senior - Pukekapia 13, Kimihia 37. ® Glenis Yates and Christine MacDonald varnished the canoe paddle presented by Mr Priestley. ® The PTA organised a waste paper and bottle drive.

Results were good with the amount raised being £10/12/6. ® During Religious Instruction, Mrs Cope brought Mrs Ogilvie, a missionary nurse from Thailand, to talk to the children and show film slides.

July ® The Kimihia School Card Club planned to raise 100 pounds towards a swimming pool.

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September ® All classes were taken on an educational visit to the Hamilton Post Office and Telephone Exchange and to Karapiro Hydro. Transport by Wilkins Bus, driver Mr T. Wilson.

October ® Softball v Pukekapia was played at the school in the afternoon. Juniors: Pukekapia 13, Kimihia 14. Seniors: Pukekapia 24, Kimihia 21. ® Concern over a bull wandering around the roads in the district and the owner to be approached. ® Calf Club, combined with a Bring & Buy stall, baby competition and cross country steeplechase was held. ® Calf Club: 14 calves were entered. Senior competitors were Kelvin Yates, Glenis Yates, Joe Tohe, May Ahchu, Winnie Wilson, Mary Johnson, John Watene and Ian Harris. Junior competitors were Ann Valentine, Jim Yates, Myrtle Watene, Natalie Watene, Brian Harris and Lawrence Watene.

Results: Senior Leading 1st Joe Tohe, 2nd Kelvin Yates, 3rd May Ahchu Junior Leading 1st Brian Harris, 2nd Myrtle Watene, 3rd Jim Yates Leading Champion Jim Yates Senior Rearing 1st Glenis Yates, 2nd Kelvin Yates, 3rd Joe Tohe Junior Rearing 1st Ann Valentine, 2nd Jim Yates, 3rd Natalie Watene Rearing Champion Glenis Yates Dairy Type - July - 1st May Ahchu, 2nd Ann Valentine, 3rd Glenis Yates Dairy Type - August - 1st Jim Yates, 2nd Winnie Wilson, 3rd Natalie Watene Dairy Type Champion (Awarded Calf Club Cup) May Ahchu ® Mr Moore of Taupiri judged the competition. Mr F. Harris was adult supervisor and the club was organised by a PTA sub-committee consisting of Messrs F Harris, J

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Fisher, R Yates, B Grut and P Lawless. The cup was presented by Mr John Holland.

Children and parents had a picnic lunch at the school after which the Bring & Buy stall was run, this resulting in a net profit of £17/2/2. Of this amount £6 was taken at a stall run by the standards girls, organised by Mrs Wilson.

The baby competition was judged by Mrs Willoughby.

Birth to 12 months: David Lawless 12 months to 2 years: Carol White Glenis Yates presented a bouquet to Mrs Willoughby.

The results of the cross country run were: Senior 1st Billy Valentine, 2nd John Watene, 3rd Kelvin Yates Junior 1st David Lewis, 2nd Martin Tweedie, 3rd Charles Lewis The pet show was won by Mary Wilson.

November ® Six children took calves to Group Day at Ohinewai; Glenis Yates, Kelvin Yates, Charlie Tohe, Ann Valentine, May Ahchu and Jimmy Yates.

Results: Jimmy Yates - 1st Junior Leading (August), 2nd Junior Rearing (August), 4th Type (August).

Kelvin Yates -4th Senior Leading (July) Ann Valentine -3rd Type (July) Ann, Glenis & May 3rd School Group of Three School total points - 11. ® Committee advised of the appointment of Mr Peter Bull as the new headmaster for 1960. ® Twenty pounds set as the limit to the spending on the childrens’ Christmas Party. Farmer’s Trading Company approached to provide the gifts for the party. Mr Drayton provided the icecream at wholesale rates.

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1960 Events þ ‘Listener’ carries first details of television programmes. þ Murray Halberg sets world 3-mile record. þ Peter Snell and Murray Halberg win gold medals at the Rome Olympics.

ENROLMENTS 1960 ANDERSON, William........................... February VAN DER KAAP, Robert ..................... February WIDGERY, Adrian Andrew..........................May POUWHARE, Henry................................ August POUWHARE, Queenie ............................ August WATENE, Colin....................................... August WATENE, Leonard .................................. August HARRIS, Charles George....................September FISHER, Linda ........................................October WATERS, Stewart...................................October VITASOVICH (WHITE), Ivan GeorgeNovember WATENE, David................................. November WATENE, William Kenneth ............... November Tunes from 1960.

1 It's Now or Never (Elvis Presley), 2 Cathy's Clown (Everly Brothers), 3 Apache (Shadows), 4 Why (Anthony Newley), 5 My Old Man's a Dustman (Lonnie Donegan), 6 What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For? (Emile Ford and the Checkmates), 7 Please Don't Tease (Cliff Richard and the Shadows), 8 Good Timin' (Jimmy Jones), 9 Tell Laura I Love Her (Ricky Valance), 10 Only The Lonely (Roy Orbison), February ® Mr D. Skilton served as a relieving teacher for just the first week of the year, followed by Mr J. H. Walker who took over the same duties on the 8th February. He was confirmed as the permanent teacher on March 1st.

April ® Mrs J. Walker relieved from the 8th to the 14th of April during Mrs Wilson’s illness. Mrs Walker stayed on after the return of Mrs Wilson to spend an hour a day to hear the reading of the much retarded readers in the senior school. ® Mrs Cope was elected chairman of the P.T.A. in place of Mrs Graff who was leaving the district at the end of April.

May ® At a P.T.A. meeting, a Bell & Howell 16mm film projector was demonstrated to the parents and the headmaster was invited to speak about the academic standards in the school and to explain the procedure adopted to remedy weaknesses. ® From timber supplied by the committee Mr Walker put additional wider shelves in the prefab storeroom and porch.

Mr Grut constructed bookshelves which were erected in the main building. ® Up until the 31st of May the school committee were inactive, due to the departure of their secretary Mr Vercoe, with the books being unavailable. Mr Grut was appointed secretary and Mr W. Valentine invited on to the committee. ® Mrs Walker continued to give an hour each day to help backward readers, working under the direction of Mr Walker and Mrs Wilson.

® Being of the opinion that children are not capable of adequately cleaning out a school, the main building has been done during the holidays by Mr & Mrs Walker. The floor was scrubbed, all woodwork washed and cobwebs cleaned off walls and ceiling. The results were very pleasing, with old residents who attended card evenings in the building expressing their delight and claiming that they had never known the school to look so clean and tidy.

June ® A number of wattles growing near the end of the prefab were cut down to enable the early morning sun to have some effect in helping to warm the classroom.

July ® Mr Ron Green entertained at a social evening held in the prefab by the P.T.A. on July 31st. At the end of the following month Mr Gib Drayton and Mr Walker held a slide show. Following the show a new school committee was elected and comprised Mr Gorinski (chairman), Mrs Irene Lewis (secretary), Mr J. Walker, Mrs D. Cope, Mr D. Holland, Mr van der Kaap, Mrs Yates Mr Fisher. ® Mrs Tweedie hosted a party at her residence where games were played and a number of quick-fire raffles run with proceeds going to the PTA to purchase a daylight screen for the projector. A profit of £8/12/0 was made.

August ® On the 19th of August a very successful school concert was held with a record crowd in attendance (the room being full to capacity). All were appreciative of the good standard of the items, which included songs and verse-speaking by the seniors, songs and poems by the infants, a PE display of mat-work, a musical play ‘Sleeping Beauty’ by the infants, and three plays by the seniors ‘Mr Miacca’, ‘The True Princess’ and ‘Little Black Sambo’. ® Everything was suitably staged with curtains, wings, backdrop, ceilings and stage lights. The costumes made by the parents, Mrs Wilson and Mrs Walker were excellent.

Makeup was prepared and used. The items followed in quick succession with no waits between scenes. Supper was provided in the infant room. ® Mr Jack Shaw donated a coloured aerial photograph to the school.

October ® A working bee on the first Sunday in October saw the removal of four overhanging wattles from the garden corner, the straightening and tightening of the west roadside fence, the construction of a new gate at the front entrance, the regrading of the playground along the road fence and the construction of a new fence. ® The workers commenced at 9:30am and worked through until 4pm and comprised Mr Fisher, Mr Grut, Mr Valentine, Mr Gorinski, Mr Lewis, Mr Walker, Mr Anderson and Mr Yates. A front-end loader was borrowed from Downers and a tractor from Mr Valentine. Mr Grut provided a tractor with a post-hole drill attached.

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The Kimihia school is circled to the left and the mining village of seven houses is arrowed just below it. In the middle distance, just over the ridge where Kimihia Road runs, is the shallow body of water of Hakanoa Lake. This lake is used for boating and yachting.

The mine pit was off-limits to the children of the district, but that didn’t stop them from enjoying the wild nature of the pit edges. On summer days the heavy tyres of the earthmoving machines pounded the dry soil until a fine dust called ‘bulldust’ was generated. This had the consistency of talcum powder and provided the ultimate sensation as it flowed between the toes of the barefooted explorers. On fine days the dust coated everything in sight and the householders were compelled to keep their windows closed in a vain attempt to keep the dust from getting inside the houses.

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A 1960 aerial photograph of the mine looking out towards Huntly. The total destruction of the Lake can be clearly seen as efforts are made to remove the overburden from the 30’ thick coal seams, which slope away downward to the right. This was the limit to which opencast mining was a viable concern. To remove further overburden to the north (right) would have made the removal of the coal uneconomic. In later years the coal was to be removed by returning to underground extraction - longwall mining.

The dredge is seen here working in its own pond as it strips away the softer lake bed before the area is opened up for us by the bulldozers, euclids and carryalls. All overburden was dumped into what remained of the lake.

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Aerial view of the school buildings, the school house and the seven houses of the Kimihia mine village (1960).

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1961 1961 Events þ John F Kennedy becomes US President. þ Yuri Gargarin first man in space. þ Berlin wall built. þ Television broadcasting in NZ extended to seven nights. þ Flagpole and flag set up at Kimihia School. þ Godfrey Bowen sets new shearing record of 463 sheep in nine hours. þ A H Reed (85 years old) walks from Cape Reinga to the Bluff. þ Capital punishment abolished in NZ. ENROLMENTS 1961 RANGI, Georgina.................................. February DALEY, Charles........................................... June DALEY, Christine ........................................ June DALEY, Ralda esiree ................................... June DALEY, Ronald ........................................... June McILROY, Dean James................................ June NEWTON, Kenneth Leslie........................... June NEWTON, Raymond.................................... June CASTLES, Sharon......................................... July GRUT, Ross Owen ..............................September CLARK, Alfred .......................................October CLARK, Virginia.....................................October FISHER, Raymond ..................................October The Music of '61.

1 Wooden Heart (Elvis Presley), 2 Johnny Remember Me (John Leyton), 3 Are You Lonesome Tonight (Elvis Presley), 4 Little Sister (Elvis Presley), 5 Surrender (Elvis Presley), 6 Runaway (Del Shannon), 7 You Don't Know (Helen Shapiro), 8 Walkin' Back to Happiness (Helen Shapiro), 9 Tower of Strength (Frankie Vaughan), 10 Walk Right Back (Everly Brothers), 11 Poetry in Motion (Johnny Tillotson), 12 Blue Moon (Marcels), 13 Temptation (Everly Brothers), 14 Sailor (Petula Clark), 15 Climb Ev'ry Mountain (Shirley Bassey), 16 Moon River (Danny Williams), 17 I Love You (Cliff Richard and the Shadows), 18 Michael (Highwaymen), 19 Kon-Tiki (Shadows), 20 On The Rebound (Floyd Cramer), 21 Hello Mary Lou / Travellin' Man (Ricky Nelson), 22 Big Bad John (Jimmy Dean), 23 Save the Last Dance for Me (Drifters), 24 Lazy River (Bobby Darin), 25 Jealousy (Billy Fury), 26 Theme for a Dream (Cliff Richard and the Shadows), 27 When the Girl in Your Arms is the Girl in Your Heart (Cliff Richard), 28 Take Good Care of my Baby (Bobby Vee), 29 Portrait of my Love (Mat Monro), 30 Romeo (Petula Clark).

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Mrs Broadhurst, from Rakaumanga, replaced Mrs Wilson in a relieving capacity.

At the end of February a further £5 was spent to complete the School Committee grant from the previous year in the purchase of resource books. With this infant books and cuisinaire number sets were purchased.

After a months service Mrs Broadhurst moved on to take up a position in Hamilton. She took a real interest in the school and commenced cuisinaire work in arithmetic. She strove to maintain standards in the basic subjects, particularly as a succession of relieving teachers could result in a falling off of standards.

Mrs Walker gave three days service in the Infant Room pending the appointment of Miss J. A. Lumsden as relieving assistant. Mrs Walker stayed on to provide the continuity in the Junior classes for a week.

March ® Miss Lumsden started on March 6th with only the Primers while the Standard 1 students were moved into the senior building, leaving eleven primers in the Infant Room. ® On the 7th the spectacle of the court, drive and pathway being tarsealed was completed after being started by the contractors on the 5th. Two layers of metal were laid down of 1/8 inch and 1/16 inch before cold seal was applied over the top. The drive was not fully sealed. ® Wattles, barbary and blackberry were bulldozed clear of the east fence courtesy of Mr Fisher and a ‘dozer from Downer’s on the 12th. The Committee had planned to convert this into a dry grass area, with drainage being more rapid on this higher part of the hill. Mr Grut and Mr Yates along with Mr Walker repaired the east fence temporarily as it was planned to move it back later to include the new piece of ground. ® The school committee found that the ‘milk in schools’ scheme was justified based on the data received from the parents. ® The following day all the pupils were taken by Mrs Valentine in Holland’s truck to the woolshed to see the shearing. Mr John Holland had shown a real interest in the school and the children and he made the visit well worthwhile, answering questions and explaining all aspects of shearing. ® A flag pole arrived from the Education Board on March 14th. ® Miss Lumsden terminated her position as relieving assistant on Friday the 24th of March to be replaced by Mrs Marion Bogie the following Monday. Arriving on the same day as Mrs Bogie was the new Bell & Howell 16mm projector from Snapshot Ltd, Hamilton (purchased under subsidy by the PTA).

April ® In early April a new iron roof was put on the prefab’, replacing the unsatisfactory aluminium one.

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® At a householder’s meeting on April 12th the following were elected on to the School Committee: Mr J. Fisher (Chairman), Mr B. Grut (Secretary), Mr G. White, Mr R. Yates and Mrs P. Valentine.

There were only five nominations at the poorly attended meeting. ® The newly purchased film projector, subsidised by a grant of 25 pounds from the Mines Amenities Board, was shown off at the April PTA meeting with three films being shown to a good crowd. The opportunity was taken to make a presentation to Mrs Wilson and to express thanks for her two very valuable years of service with the Junior school.

May ® On the 2nd of May a school flag was received from the Education Board and eight days later Messrs Grut, Yates and Walker set the new flag pole in a concrete base and poured cement around the strainer posts at the main gates. The gates were reset and a stop set on the ground in cement. ® Resolved by the Committee that cocoa be supplied to the children during the winter months.

July ® Messrs Grut and Yates made a new set of covers for the sandpit, while a wormery and paper cups were received from Mr Gore, the Nature Study specialist. Also during July two new hand forks and four new hand trowels were received from the Board to supplement the gardening tools.

August ® On August 15th the school sports trip to Pukekapia (by private cars) resulted in Kimihia winning the rugby 21-0 and losing the basketball 2-9. ® Water from the new spouting on the infants room was found to be streaming under the building and needed to be corrected.

September ® With the new projector needing some security and protection a cabinet was made by Mr B. Grut and set up in the classroom for use. The next day (September 11) the Annual general Meeting of the PTA saw the following elected: Mr Walker (chairman), Mrs Lewis, Mrs Castles, Mrs Cope, Mr Valentine, Mr Drayton, Mr Yates and Mr Holland. ® Five small shrubs, previously planted amongst the lawsoniana hedge and having been wrenched in May, were transplanted to more suitable positions on 12th ® An end of term two concert of plays, poems and songs proved of a higher standard than 1960, earning favourable comments, especially of the plays and verse speaking. ® On 17th September a “Pop-pup” sports day was held.

The rugby match between fathers (Pops) and sons (Pups) resulted in a 15-12 win to the sons and was refereed by Ivan Foster. The basketball match was not possible due to the small number of girls so several games of Padder Tennis were played instead, the girls proving themselves superior.

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October ® Something was done about the junior drinking fountain that splashed its water over the feet of the drinkers, with a pipe being set in place by Mr Fisher. ® The Annual Calf Club Day was held with seven quality calves being entered by Brian Grut, Charles Lewis, Kelvin Yates, David Lewis, Ann Valentine, Kevin Fisher and Jimmy Yates.

Leading (seniors) - 1st B. Grut, 2nd K. Yates, 3rd D.Lewis Leading (juniors) - 1st A. Valentine, 2nd K. Fisher, 3rd J. Yates Rearing (seniors) - 1st K. Yates, 2nd C.Lewis, 3rd B. Grut Rearing (juniors) - 1st J. Yates, 2nd A. Valentine, 3rd K. Fisher Type (July calves) - 1st K. Fisher, 2nd B. Grut, 3rd A. Valentine Type (August calves) 1st K. Yates, 2nd J. Yates, 3rd D.Lewis Championship Award to K. Yates Leading Cup to B. Grut ® Mr T. Gerrand of Taupiri was again the Judge, with the two cups presented to the winners by Mrs Clubb. The Leading Cup was a new award presented to the school by Mrs Joyce Roberts, an old-pupil of the school. ® A Baby Show was judged by Mrs Ryburn. There were seven babies, four under one year and three over one year.

Winner (up to 12 months) Baby Jones. Winner (1 to 2 years) Baby McKeown. ® For the remainder of the pupils competitions were organised: Leaf Collection (F1/2) 1st John Cope, 2nd M. Watene, 3rd C. Lewis Leaf Collection (S3/4) 1st D.Lewis, 2nd D. Cope, 3rd A. Valentine Minor Projects (F1/2) 1st D. Watene, 2nd I. Harris, 3rd M. Watene Minor Projects (S3/4) 1st D.Lewis, 2nd D. Cope, 3rd C. Tohe Minor Projects (S1/2) 1st B. Harris, 2nd N. Watene, 3rd B. White Lino Cuts (S4-F2) 1st D. Watene, 2nd I. Harris, 3rd B. Grut Wooden Toys (S3-F2) 1st T. Drayton, 2nd D. Cope

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Anthology Books (F1/2) 1st D. Watene, 2nd M. Watene, 3rd C. Lewis Anthology Books (S3/4) 1st D. Cope, 2nd D.Lewis, 3rd A. Valentine Paintings (S3-F2) 1st D. Cope, 2nd M. Watene, 3rd L. Watene Clay Modelling (F1/2) 1st B. Grut, 2nd D. Watene, 3rd I. Harris Clay Modelling (S3/4) 1st B. Valentine, 2nd G. Clarke, 3rd P. Tupuhi Clay Modelling (S1/2) 1st S. Clarke, 2nd P. Hiki, 3rd K. Newton Clay Modelling (Infants) 1st C.Harris, 2nd R. Newton, 3rd I. Bogie Sand Saucers (F1/2) 1st W. Wilson, 2nd I. Harris, 3rd M. Watene Sand Saucers (S1-S3) 1st M. Wilson, 2nd G. Clarke, 3rd D. Cope Sand Saucers (P3/4) 1st R. Newton, 2nd L. Fisher, 3rd S. Grut Sand Saucers (P1/2) 1st I. Bogie, 2nd G.Rangi, 3rd D. Lewis Paper Dolls (Primers) 1st S. Grut, 2nd L. Fisher, 3rd S. Castle Printing (P3/4) 1st S. Grut, 2nd J. Yates Printing (P1/2) 1st I. White, 2nd C.Harris, 3rd W. Watene Story (P3/4) 1st S. Grut, 2nd I. White, 3rd C.Harris Story (P1/2) 1st G.Rangi, 2nd I. Bogie, 3rd D. Lewis

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® Competition entries were on exhibition, arranged in classes and types in the shelter shed, making quite a pleasing display. ® A Bring & Buy stall was organised by the PTA, which realised a profit of £18/19/0. Mr A. Newton ran a very popular shooting gallery in a corner of the grounds and netted 17/6d which was particularly good as shots were two a penny. ® Novelty races were run throughout the afternoon and a nail-driving competition resulted in a dead-heat in the final between Mrs Yates and Mrs Ryburn.

November ® The porch bench was scraped down and cleaned before being repainted and new door catches were fitted. The work was done voluntarily by Mr G. Sole (materials provided by Committee). ® Christmas gifts obtained from Woolworths for the school party.

December ® Interior painting was done as follows: projector box inside and outside with the door painted to serve as a blackboard; the unpainted hardboard below the large blackboard; book shelves all lines out in yellow; the school records cupboard. Again the work was done by Mr G. Sole (volunteer), with materials supplied by the school. ® A new down-pipe was put on the prefab’ to take the water from the new spouting into the new drainage. The work was done by Dobson Ltd. ® The school year concluded on the 19th with a party evening run by the School Committee and the PTA. Each child received a gift from the Christmas Tree.

Site Plans of School and Headmaster’s residence.

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Headmaster’s residence site plan The house was tucked into the western corner of the diamond-shaped section of land originally set aside in 1897.

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1962 1962 Events þ John Glenn first American in space. þ Influenza outbreak decimates Kimihia School attendance. þ Thalidomide found to cause deformities in babies. þ Open road speed limit in NZ raised to 88 km/hr. þ Barrie Devenport first to swim Cook Strait. þ Peter Snell breaks world mile record at Cooks Gardens, Wanganui.

ENROLMENTS 1962 RYBURN, Wendy Helen........................February TARAWA, Benjamin .............................February EPERE, Patricia .........................................March DALLY, Valmay Margaret...........................April TOHE, Charles ............................................. July CARROLL, Ross Perry .............................August ASHBY, Alfred Rex............................ September ASHBY, George Graeme .................... September ASHBY, Gwladys Jean........................ September ASHBY, Kallua Jayne ......................... September ASHBY, Stanley Clive ........................ September GILES, Faye Vivienne......................... September HART, Peter David ................................. October NICHOLSON, Euen Ross ................... November JONES, Bronwyn .................................December Music of 1962.

1 Wonderful Land (Shadows), 2 1 Remember You (Frank Ifield), 3 The Young Ones (Cliff Richard and the Shadows), 4 Good Luck Charm (Elvis Presley), 5 Lovesick Blues (Frank Ifteld), 6 Telstar (Tornados), 7 Rock-a-Hula-Baby (Elvis Presley), 8 She's Not You (Elvis Presley), 9 Return to Sender (Elvis Presley), 10 1 Can't Stop Loving You (Ray Charles), 11 Come Outside (Mike Sarne with Wendy Richard), 12 Moon River (Danny William), 13 Speedy Gonzales (Pat Boone), 14 Let's Dance (Chris Montez), 15 Do You Wanna Dance (Cliff Richard and the Shadows), 16 Tell Me What He Said (Helen Shapiro), 17 Loco-Motion (Little Eva), 18 Stranger on the Shore (Acker Bilk with the Leon Young String Chorale), 19 A Picture of You (Joe Brown and the Bruvvers), 20 Let's Twist Again (Chubby Checker), 21 Dream Baby (Roy Orbison), 22 Bachelor Boy (Cliff Richard and the Shadows), 23 Things (Bobby Darin), 24 It'll Be Me (Cliff Richard and the Shadows), 25 Hey Little Girl (Del Shannon), 26 Midnight in Moscow (Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen), 27 Roses are Red (Ronnie Carroll), 28 Bobby's Girl (Susan Maughan), 29 It Might as Well Rain Until September (Carole King), 30 Sun Arise (Rolf Harris), 31 Sealed With a Kiss (Brian Hyland), 32 Dance On (Shadows).

February ® Mrs Marion Bogie, relieving assistant throughout 1961, was appointed permanent assistant mistress and the school opened with a roll of 35. ® An effort was made by the Committee to tidy up the area behind the shelter shed. ® A kitset of infant Arithmetic Apparatus costing £8/2/0 was bought by the PTA. Books to the value of £30 were bought by the School Committee. They were all fiction and filled a need in the poorly equipped library.

March ® A set of school measuring weights was bought on subsidy by the School Committee for use in the infant room. ® “Open Day” was held at the school for the first time to enable parents to see how a modern school is run and to demonstrate teaching methods of the day. Parents were able to see a normal day, the children responding very well in the presence of visitors. ® Parents were very appreciative of the opportunity to see the school at work and were full of praise for the manner in which the school is being run. Attendance by parents was good with about 75% attending.

May ® The school bonus account reached £16 and a visit to Auckland was planned, but due to the Headmaster’s impending resignation, this lapsed. ® A roof brace came loose and fell in the infants prefab, with no other reports of damage or injury.

June ® As no head teacher was appointed from the beginning of the term Mrs Marion Bogie was appointed acting Head teacher and Mrs P. Valentine - a parent and member of the school committee - offered her services as relieving teacher. ® Mr Grut and Mr Yates put up three benches in the infant room. The construction of a mobile staffroom was started. ® Mr D. Burney was appointed Head teacher to commence July 2.

July ® Mr Burney commenced duties with a roll of 30 (22 seniors and 8 juniors). Cords and windows underwent repair while the new staffroom only needed painting. ® The Lower Waikato Boys and Girls Agriculture Group were advised that the Kimihia School grounds were not suitable to host a Group Calf Club Day. ® 100 battens purchased to repair the bush fence. ® Traffic Officer Young visited and showed three films.

Nature Study specialist Mr Gore visited and left two insect boxes, a rain gauge and a max./min temperature gauge. An aquarium was placed on order and arrived at the end of the month. ® Up to two pounds released by the committee to be spent on dahlia tubers. ® Several cracked windows were replaced by a working bee of Mr Grut, Mr Yates, Mr White and Mr Burney. ® A football and basketball sports trip was played against

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Huntly Primary. ‘Flu had claimed many of the Kimihia players and almost depleted the girls’ team completely. ® The school received a visit from Mr Wallbank and Mr Cately of the Physed Department to speak about school camps. ® A party from the school (the senior room plus Jimmy Yates) travelled to Huntly via bicycle, Mr Valentine’s car and Mr Burney’s car to watch the Rugby League encounter between Great Britain and Waikato.

August ® School parties have visited the mine, the fire station, the railway station, farms and the brickworks. ® The school visited Ohinewai on the 13th to play football and basketball and, on the 16th, visited Ruawaro for similar activities.

September ® Mr Watson visited the school on an inspectorial visit with Mrs Bogie while Mr T. R. Wallbank of the Physed Department showed slides of Port Waikato and the functions the school will perform when they go to camp in mid-November. ® A fathers and mothers sports day was held on the 23rd where the girls played the mothers at basketball and the boys played the fathers at softball. A large crowd attended. The results saw the mothers beat the girls 16-9 and the fathers draw with the sons 15-15 after the fathers ‘depreciated’ their own scoreline!

October ® Calf Club day was held on the 11th combined with a Bring & Buy Stall, Sports and a Baby Show resulted in a profit of £21-10-4. ® With all calves judged in the same class the results were: Leading 1st James Yates, 2nd Brian Harris, 3rd Ann Valentine.

Rearing 1st James Yates, 2nd Charles Harris, 3rd Ann Valentine.

Champion of Champions - James Yates.

Reserve Champion - Charles Harris. ® Mr T. Gerrand of Taupiri was judge and the cups were presented by Mrs Clubb. ® The Pet Show was judged by Mrs Gerrand and resulted in Faye Giles 1st, the Cope family birds 2nd and Mary Wilson 3rd.. ® The Baby Show was judged by Mrs Willoughby with four babies entered in each of the two sections. Baby Tapp won the Up to 18 months section with Grant Burney winning the 18 months to 3 years section. ® The remainder of the pupils participated in several competitions that were displayed in the shelter shed.

Sand Saucer (F1 & 2) 1st Wendy Ryburn, 2nd G. Ashby, 3rd P. Epere.

Sand Saucer (S2-S4) 1st Peter Tupuhi, 2nd M. Watene, 3rd D. Cope Sand Saucer (P3-S1) 1st Sheryl Grut,

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2nd Sharon Castles, 3rd W. Watene Sand Saucer (P1-P2) 1st Ross Grut, 2nd Peter Hart.

Models - Free Design (S2-S6) 1st Rex Ashby, 2nd P. Tupuhi, 3rd W. Ryburn.

Models - Sketch (S2-S6) 1st M. Watene, 2nd B. Valentine, 3rd P. Tupuhi, Highly Commended Wendy Ryburn.

Wild Flowers (Primers): 1st Faye Giles, 2nd Kallua Ashby, 3rd Ross Grut. ® The Bring & Buy Stall resulted in a pleasing £21/10/4 profit. A Cross Country run was held over the Valentine and Harris properties with Charles Tohe 1st, Gary Clarke 2nd, Peter Tupuhi 3rd and W. Valentine 4th. ® Fathers joined in the novelty races and sports races were held for age groups. ® On the 25th Waiterimu visited for a softball match.

November ® Huntly Primary unsuccessfully played two of our softball teams on the 5th at Kimihia. Charlie Tohe was the pitcher and Myrtle Watene the catcher for the ‘A’ team. ® On the 7th the Std 4 to Form 2 children left for 10 days at the Port Waikato Camp. ® Doctor Morris and the District Nurse checked several children who had been referred by the Nurse on a previous visit. ® On the 19th a very tired but happy group of children returned from the Camp at Port Waikato.

December ® Island Block school visited on the 4th and also visited the Kimihia Mine. An afternoon of sports was held with the hosts being successful at softball. This match was used as a preparation for a softball tournament to be held in Huntly on the 14th, which Kimihia participated in. ® The Committee obtained a quote of £5-10-0 for the hireage of a bulldozer to clear the bush fenceline. ® Myrtle Watene ended up as top student for 1962.

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1963

1963 1963 Events þ President Kennedy assassinated in Dallas. þ Gary Clarke and Natalie Watene win Kimihia School cross country. þ Queen Elizabeth II visits NZ. þ The pop group Beatles hit the airwaves in a big way.

ENROLMENTS 1963 CARROLL, Dean Rodney ..................... February GILES, Marilyn Lea .............................. February HOLLAND, Deborah Jane .................... February JONES, William Haydon....................... February WATENE, Selwyn Whakaheke ............. February HARRIS, Bruce ........................................... April CASTLE, Kevin James................................. June ASHBY, Shelaine Emily........................... August DANIELS, Maurice .................................. August QUIGLEY, John Alan .........................September QUIGLEY, Russell Irvine ...................September QUIGLEY, Stuart Gary .......................September WHITE, Carol June .............................September HARRIS, Ronald Hohaia.........................October PAUL, Walter Warihi .......................... November The songs of '63.

1 From Me To You (Beatles), 2 She Loves You (Beatles), 3 You'll Never Walk Alone (Gerry and the Pacemakers), 4 I Like It (Geny and the Pacemakers), 5 How Do You Do It (Gerry and the Pacemakers), 6 Bachelor Boy/The Next Time (Cliff Richard and the Shadows), 7 Summer Holiday (Cliff Richard and the Shadows), 8 Do You Love Me (Brian Poole and the Tremeloes), 9 Wayward Wind (Frank Ifield), 10 Bad to Me (Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas), 11 Diamonds (Jet Harris and Tony Meehan), 12 I Want to Hold Your Hand (Beatles), 13 Confessin' (Frank Ifield), 14 Sweets For My Sweets (Searchers), 15 You're The Devil in Disguise (Elvis Presley), 16 Foot Tapper (Shadows), 17 Dance On (Shadows), 18 From a Jack to a King (Fred Miller), 19 Please Please Me (Beatles), 20 It's All in the Game (Cliff Richard), 21 Can't Get Used to Losing You (Andy Williams), 22 You Were Made For Me (Freddie and the Dreamers), 23 Blue Bayou (Roy Orbison), 24 The Night Has a Thousand Eyes (Bobby Vee).

February ® The school opened on the 4th with a role of 37 with Mrs Bogie continuing as Assistant Mistress. The senior room and the porch were painted. ® On the 7th the school closed for the day while the Headmaster took the Std 2 to Form 2 pupils to the Auckland Domain to see Queen Elizabeth II. March ® Standard 2-6 travelled by parents’ cars to Island Block

School for the day. A visit was made to a sawmill and swimming sports were entered into in the afternoon. ® During this absence by the senior school Mr Fisher bulldozed the fenceline between Valentine’s property and the school. ® Physed specialist Mr T. Wallbank visited to give softball coaching and general exercises.

April ® At a householders’ meeting the following were elected to the School Committee: Mrs P. Valentine (Chairwoman), Mr B. Grut (Secretary), Messrs Holland, Dally and White. The meeting was attended by eleven people.

May ® The Annual General Meeting of the PTA was attended by twelve people. Elected were Mr Drayton (Chairman), Mrs Carroll (Secretary), Mrs Hart, Mr Jones, Mrs Cope and Mr Burney. Several films were shown and supper served.

June ® Folk Dancing was taken by PE Specialist Mr T. R. Wallbank. ® A school football and basketball team travelled to Ruawaro school where the football was drawn 15-15 and Ruawaro won the basketball 15-0. Transport was provided by Mr Valentine, Yates, White and Burney.

July ® Basketball and football teams lost their games against the Convent School. Mr Yates and Valentine accompanied the teams. ® Mr Hoar, visiting teacher, spent July 3rd at the school.

August ® During the July/August months Kimihia travelled to other schools in the area to play football and basketball Huntly, Huntly West, Raukamanga, Ruawaro, Pukemiro, Rangariri, Ohinewai and Rotowaro. Those who helped with transport were Mr Valentine (who transported children on each of the trips), Mr White, Mr Yates, Mr Holland, Mr Grut and Mr Cope. ® Arbor Day was celebrated on the 25th with Mrs Valentine officiating. ® Fourteen people attended the PTA meeting where films were shown.

September ® A basketball game against the mothers and a football game·against the fathers was held in front of a large crowd. Mothers 9 - Girls 6; Fathers 21 - Boys 21.

October ® Messrs Holland, Grut and Valentine disced and graded the new addition to the football field. ® Visited the Island Block School Committee re the financing of school baths. ® The school participated in the Huntly Primary Schools Music Festival - transported by Mr Valentine and Mr Cope.

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® A combined meeting of the PTA and the School Committee arranged a School Gala Day. ® Rotowaro school visited with two teams to play softball and won both games.

November ® Mr Bean visited the school on the 1st for a School Inspection. ® The senior room visited a flower show after school on Friday 8th to prepared for the school’s show the following Thursday 14th. ® Results of the Pet and Flower Show held on the 14th: Best Rose 1st Euan Nicholson, 2nd Clive Ashby, 3rd Susan Clarke.

Best Gladioli 1st David Cope, 2nd Susan Clarke, 3rd Marilyn Giles.

Best Three Gerberas 1st Terry Drayton, 2nd Jimmy Yates, 3rd Maurice Daniels.

Best Three Carnations 1st Terry Drayton, 2nd Ross Grut.

Best Flowering Shrub 1st Marilyn Giles, 2nd Marilyn Giles, 3rd= Wayne Clarke & Jimmy Yates.

Wild Flowers (Senior) 1st David Cope, 2nd Marilyn Giles, 3rd Russell Quigley.

Wild Flowers (Junior) 1st Billy Jones, 2nd Sharon Castle, 3rd Bronwyn Jones.

Daisies 1st Susan Clarke.

Any Three Flowers (Open) 1st David Cope, 2nd Wayne Clarke, 3rd Lorraine Cope.

A 1963 view of the site that was to become the new location of Kimihia school in 1967.

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Best Bloom 1st Marilyn Giles, 2nd Lorraine Cope, 3rd= Faye Giles & Ann Valentine.

Sand Saucer (Senior) 1st Marilyn Giles, 2nd David Cope, 3rd Russell Quigley.

Sand Saucer (Junior) 1st Stuart Quigley, 2nd Ivan White, 3rd Debbie Holland.

Vegetable Man (Senior) 1st Marilyn Giles, 2nd Terry Drayton, 3rd Jimmy Yates, Highly Commended Lawrence Watene.

Vegetable Man (Junior) 1st Stuart Quigley, 2nd Peter Hart, 3rd= Ivan White & Euan Nicholson.

Garden on a Tray (Senior) 1st Jimmy Yates, 2nd David Cope, 3rd= Gary Clarke & Susan Clarke, Highly Commended were Terry Drayton, Wayne Clarke & Ann Valentine.

Garden on a Tray (Junior) 1st Faye Giles, 2nd Sharon Castles.

Best Groomed Pet (Senior) Terry Drayton.

Best Groomed Pet (Junior) Susan Clarke.

Most Unusual Pet David Cope.

Most Obedient Pet 1st Susan Clarke, 2nd Terry Drayton.

Most Attractive Pet 1st Lorraine Cope, 2nd Graeme Ashby.

The Best Friend Ivan White.

Pot Plants 1st Lorraine Cope, 2nd David Cope, 3rd Jimmy Yates. ® Cross country races were held over Mr Valentine’s property. Boys - 1st Gary Clarke, 2nd Stuart White, 3rd Terry Drayton, 4th Wayne Clarke. Girls - 1st Natalie Watene, 2nd Susan Clarke, 3rd Ann Valentine. ® Several competitions were held for the ladies. Nail Driving won by Mrs R. Holland and Rolling Pin Throwing won by Mrs J. Fisher. The stalls provided a pleasant profit of £33/15/- which was a record amount.

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1963 Std 2 to Form 2 Rear: Don Burney, Peter Hiki, _______________, Gary Clarke, Ann Valentine, Wayne Clarke, Maurice Daniels, Marilyn Giles.

Centre: Stuart White, Lorraine Cope, Lawrence Watene, Brian White, Natalie Watene, Rex Ashby, Terry Drayton.

Seated: Ross Carroll, Jimmy Yates, David Cope, Susan Clarke, Russell Quigley, Cheryl Grut, Graham Ashby.

December ® Visited Waiterimu school to play softball and have a swim. The ‘B’ team lost and the ‘A’ team won. Transport was provided by Messrs Grut, White, Valentine and the Headmaster. ® On the 19th a Christmas Pageant was held at the school inside due to rain.

A good crowd of parents attended and there was ice-cream and drinks for the children. ® School closed for Christmas vacation on the 20th December.

This contemporary photo shows the diamond-shaped boundaries of the school cut by the road access to the mine.

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Mothers 9 - Girls 6 Mrs Bogie (extreme left) shows fine form in following the play in the annual Mothers v Girls outdoor basketball game. ( It was not until a few years later that the name outdoor basketball was changed internationally to netball. )

Primer 1 to Standard 1 Rear: Marion Bogie, Selwyn Watene, __________, __________, __________, __________, __________, __________.

Middle: __________, __________, Valmay Daly, __________, Bronwyn Jones, Deborah Holland, __________.

Seated: Shelaine Ashby, __________, __________, Kalua Ashby, Carol White.

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1964

1964 1964 Events þ US planes begin bombing North Vietnam. þ China explodes atomic bomb. þ Marsden Point oil refinery opens. þ Kimihia School Committee investigate new school site. þ Golden Kiwi Lottery with £30,000 prize announced. þ Beatles tour NZ. þ Peter Snell wins gold at the 800m and 1500m at the Tokyo Olympics.

ENROLMENTS 1964 CLARKE, Christine Beverley................ February CLARKE, Wayne Murray ..................... February PERE, George........................................ February PERE, Polly ........................................... February PERE, Rangi .......................................... February WILSON, Jack Gene ............................. February HART, Kevin Clayton ................................. April RAKELS, Joanne......................................... April RAKELS, Sandra......................................... April CARTER, James Robey.................................May HOLLAND, Brett Ronald..............................May JONES, Murray .............................................May QUIGLEY, Sandra Yvonne ...........................May VITASOVICH (WHITE), Paul Carl .............May LEECH, Kevin Paul...................................... June STEINER, Anton Leonard............................ June STEINER, Edward Anthony......................... June STEINER, Gemma Catherine ....................... June STEINER, Gerard Francis ............................ June STEINER, Gregory Peter ............................. June STEINER, Loretta Majella ........................... June PERE, William Steven................................... July THOMPSON, Carolyn Jeanette..................... July THOMPSON, Paula Rangi-o-Rere ................ July THOMPSON, Robert .................................... July MARTIN-SMITH, Brenda ..................September UNU, Nan Tangiia...............................September WATENE, Wendy...............................September FOSTER, Mark Lawrence .......................October WILSON, Jack Gene ..............................October TUMAI, Margaret................................ November TUMAI, Stanley .................................. November TUMAI, Tuhi....................................... November RAKELS, John Hermanus ................... December Songs of '64 1 You're My World (Cilla Black), 2 I Feel Fine (Beatles), 3 Oh Pretty Woman (Roy Orbison), 4 A Hard day's Night (Beatles), 5 Anyone Who Had a Heart (Cilla Black), 6 Can't Buy Me Love (Beatles), 7 There's Always Something There to Remind Me (Sandie Shaw), 8 Needles and Pins (Searchers), 9 It's Over (Roy Orbison), 10 Glad All Over (Dave Clark Five), 11 Have I The Right (Honeycombes), 12 Little Children (Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas), 13 I'm Into Something Good (Herman's Hermits),

14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29

Do Wah Diddy Diddy (Manfred Mann), Don't Throw Your Love Away (Searchers), 1 Want to Hold Your Hand (Beatles), A World Without Love (Peter and Gordon), You Really Got Me (Kinks), Baby Love (Supremes), It's All Over Now (Rolling Stones), House of the Rising Sun (Animals), Downtown (Petula Clark), Bits and Pieces (Dave Clark Five), Rag Doll (Four Seasons), All Day and All of the Night (Kinks), 1 Believe (Bachelors), Hippy Hippy Shake (Blue Jeans), My Boy Lollipop (Millie), 1 Just Don't Know What to do With Myself (Dusty Springfield).

February ® Mrs Bogie and Mr Burney commenced the year with a roll of 40. ® Waiterimu school visited to play softball and general sports, the home team being successful.

March ® On the 9th Primer 3 to Form 2 travelled to the Auckland Museum and the Zoological Gardens via Simpsons Bus. Thirty seven children and two teachers travelled. ® A working bee was help to erect a fence around the new area obtained under lease from the Mine. Those attending were Valentine, White, Grut, R. Holland and Burney. Mrs Valentine and Mrs Burney provided morning tea.

May ® On the 4th the second term opened with a roll of 56.

June ® On the 19th the Chairman and Officers of the South Auckland Education Board visited the school and decided to look for a more suitable site for a new school in the future. The School Committee agreed to a new school. ® Two football and one basketball team travelled to Rotongaro - all teams winning. ® A PTA meeting was held with 30 adults present. They ® resolved to hold meeting(s) on the 4th Monday of the month.

August ® Mr Crawford and two other members of the Board met the Committee to discuss a new school and its proposed site. ® Mr Dobson, plumber, repaired the roof of the senior room and the District Nurse gave the second of her health talks.

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October ® On the 15th Calf Club Day was held and included a Pet Show. All calves were judged in the same class.

Leading 1st Murray Jones, 2nd James Yates, 3rd Terry Drayton.

Rearing 1st Murray Jones, 2nd James Yates, 3rd Terry Drayton.

Type 1st Ross Grut, 2nd John Quigley, 3rd James Yates.

Champion of Champions Murray Jones Reserve Champion James Yates Mr T.Gerrand of Taupiri was the judge and the above awards were presented by Mrs Clubb.

The pet show was judged by Mrs Gerrand: Most unusual pet was won by Brian White with his piglet The best pets were Ivan White’s cat (1st), Valmay Dally’s Rooster (2nd) and David & Lorraine Copes’ budgie (3rd) ® The PTA meeting was attended by 70 parents. This number included visitors from other PTAs where Mrs Walsh (advisor to the infant department) spoke on reading in the infant room. ® The school roll is now 63. ® Bookshelves were erected at the back of the senior room

by Mr Grut and Mr Burney. ® On the 28th Principal of Huntly College, Mr W. Cumming, and Mr Turton, Vocational Guidance Officer of Huntly College, addressed the PTA and the 13 parents in attendance. A discussion was also held on the proposed trip to Bainess.

November ® Children in classes S3-F2 travelled to Bainess School, Palmerston North, for an educational visit from the 2nd to the 7th November. Twenty-three children travelled and Mrs Valentine acted as chaperone. The children raised £72 for the trip themselves, the rest was supplied by the Committee. While there visits were made to the railway, aerodrome, flax & textile mill, Himutangi PO World Link, Manuwatu Flood Scheme and the Manuwatu Show.

The party travelled down by Landliner leaving Huntly at 9:15am and arriving back by the night express at 5:15am. ® Two weeks later the children spoke to the PTA about their Bainess trip. Thirty-one adults attended the meeting, which was also an Annual General Meeting. Officers elected were: Mr Quigley (President), Mrs Carroll (Secretary), Mrs Cope, Mrs R. Holland, Mr Rakels and Mr E. Jones, with a position being left for the incoming Head Teacher. ® Mrs Allen, Public Health Nurse, concluded a series of eight health lectures given over the past weeks to the

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senior room. ® The school roll was 66. ® Mr Cumming, Principal of Huntly College, interviewed parents of Form 2 children enrolling at the college in the new year.

December ® The school travelled to Waiterimu to play softball and won their games. Transport provided by Mr Yates, Mrs Jones, Miss Steiner and Mr Burney. ® The Annual Flower Show was held on the 9th at the school. Mrs Chandler judged the Decorative Section while Mrs Sutherland judged the Arrangements. Both classrooms were used.

Single Rose 1st Ivan White, 2nd Stuart White, 3rd Valmay Dally.

Florabunda Rose 1st Loretta Steiner, 2nd Laurie Watene, 3rd Sheryl Grut.

Best Gladioli 1st Faye Giles, 2nd Ross Grut, 3rd= Peter Hart & Ann Valentine.

Best 3 Gerberas 1st Deane Carroll, 2nd Terry Drayton, 3rd= Euan Nicholson & Laurie Watene.

Best 3 Carnations 1st Ross Grut, 2nd Sheryl Grut, 3rd Terry Drayton.

Sweet Peas - 6 stems 1st Ann Valentine, 2nd Debbie Holland, 3rd Stuart White.

Pansies - 6 stems 1st Russell Quigley, 2nd Euan Nicholson, 3rd Bronwyn Jones.

Lily - 1 stem 1st Natalie Watene, 2nd Ross Carroll, 3rd Bronwyn Jones.

Iceland Poppies - 6 stems 1st Kevin Leach, 2nd Russell Quigley, 3rd Euan Nicholson.

Daisies - Best 3 stems 1st Brett Holland, 2nd Brenda Martin-Smith, 3rd Ross Carroll.

Flowering Shrubs 1st Mark Foster, 2nd Laurie Watene, 3rd Sheryl Grut.

Three Flowering Shrubs 1st Loretta Steiner, 2nd Euan Nicholson, 3rd Ross Carroll.

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Bowl of Flowers (c) 1st Stuart Quigley, 2nd Sandra Quigley, 3rd Jackie Wilson.

Bowl of Flowers (a+b) 1st Ann Valentine, 2nd Loretta Steiner, 3rd Russell Quigley.

Novel Container (c) 1st John Quigley, 2nd Jimmy Carter, 3rd Billy Jones.

Novel Container (a+b) 1st Ross Carroll, 2nd Terry Drayton, 3rd= Paula Thompson & Faye Giles.

Floating Bowl (b) 1st Faye Giles, 2nd Peter Hart, 3rd Billy Jones.

Floating Bowl (a) 1st Terry Drayton, 2nd Ann Valentine.

Best Bloom 1st Ross Carroll, 2nd Terry Drayton, 3rd Carolyn Thompson.

Sand Saucer (c) 1st Bronwyn Jones, 2nd Stuart Quigley, 3rd Brenda Martin-Smith.

Sand Saucer (b) 1st Sheryl Grut, 2nd John Quigley, 3rd Russell Quigley.

Sand Saucer (a) 1st Margaret Tumai, 2nd Christine Clarke, 3rd Natalie Watene.

Garden on Tray (c) 1st Bronwyn Jones, 2nd Deane Carroll, 3rd Kevin Leech.

Garden on Tray (b) 1st Faye Giles, 2nd Graeme Ashby, 3rd Ross Grut.

Garden on Tray (a) 1st David Cope, 2nd Terry Drayton, 3rd Margaret Vegetable Novelty (b) 1st Stuart Quigley, 2nd Russell Quigley, 3rd Sheryl Grut.

Vegetable Novelty (a) 1st Terry Drayton.

Gent’s Buttonhole (a) 1st Christine Clarke, 2nd Terry Drayton, 3rd Ann Valentine.

Gent’s Buttonhole (b) 1st Paula Thompson, 2nd Russell Quigley.

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Aqua Bowl (a) 1st Gemma Steiner, 2nd Ann Valentine, 3rd= Rex Ashby & Laurie Watene.

Aqua Bowl (b) 1st Faye Giles, 2nd Loretta Steiner, 3rd Valmay Dally.

Aqua Bowl (c) 1st Brenda Martin-Smith, 2nd Sandra Rakels, 3rd Euan Nicholson.

Collection of 6 Weeds 1st Wayne Clarke, 2nd Loretta Steiner, 3rd Billy Jones.

Roadside Flowers Ann Valentine.

A game of softball v Pukemiro in the afternoon of the flower show produced and 8-5 win to the Kimihia girls and a 5-4 win to the Kimihia boys. The day was closed off with afternoon tea and a parents/pupils softball match.

On the 11th the Public Health Nurse and Mrs Shaw inspected Form 2 and spoke to the Infant Room on swimming.

Two outside seating forms were received from the Education Board and Mr Salmon paid his final visit to the school for the year.

Mr Chandler, head of the Social Studies department at Huntly College, observed for the morning. He showed particular interest in self-government by the pupils.

The Progressive Society of Huntly sent Santa Claus to the school to distribute sweets on the morning of the 17th. In the afternoon two softball teams travelled to Rotowaro school to play in a Tournament which included Pukemiro, Rotongaro and Rotowaro. Transport was provide by Mr Valentine, Mr Yates, Mrs Ashby, Mrs Jones, H. Tama and Mr White.

On the 16th a School Concert and Fancy Dress was held in the St John Ambulance Hall in Hakanoa Street in the evening. Also that evening was the Christmas Tree and sweets, lollies, ice-cream and presents were provided by the Committee. A large crowd in attendance proved that the school building is unable to cope with these numbers.

A farewell to Form 2 and the Head teacher Mr Burney was held that same evening.

The school closed for Christmas on the 18th with Mr Burney terminating his appointment at the end of an enjoyable tenure.

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The two staff members at the beginning of the lunch-hour, where the children were required to stay seated until they had consumed their lunch and were ‘released’ by the teacher. The sign-written “Kimihia School” on the west wall of the schoolroom was a recent addition as was the sand-pit near the road fence-line. A staff-room was soon to be an addition when the school expanded to three rooms and was to be sited in the shadow of the school building. The headmaster’s residence is bottom left and shows the garage roof and the water tank.

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The boys’ toilet can be seen below the tall tree in the centre of this shot with the girls’ toilet hidden by the trees immediately to the right. The milk box at the main gates held the daily ration of half-pint milk bottles. The roof of the much-used shelter shed can be seen. Added on to the shelter shed was a bicycle shelter, a tool room and a coal room. The old house to the rear sat on land that was, until the mid-50’s, mined for coal as the seam sloped up from the lake and was almost exposed on the crest of the hill adjacent to the school property.

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1964 - all pupils Rear: Cheryl Grut, Lorraine Cope, Caroline Thompson, Peter Hiki, Ann Valentine, Christine Clarke, Brian White, Terry Drayton, Lawrence Watene, Gemma Steiner.

5th Row: Marion Bogie (teacher), Debbie Holland, __________, __________, __________(partially obscured), Valmay Dally, Peter Hart, Ross Carroll, Paula Thompson, Ross Grut, Bill Jones (partially obscured), __________, Clive Ashby, Don Burney (teacher).

4th Row: Murray Jones, Rex Ashby, Natalie Watene, David Cope, Willie Pere, Stuart White.

3rd Row: Carol White (in front of pole), Kalua Ashby, __________, Polly Pere, Shellaine Ashby, Sandra Quigley, Euan Nicholson, Bronwyn Jones, __________, Dean Carroll, Brett Holland, __________.

2nd Row: Rangi Pere, Faye Giles, __________, Wayne Clarke, Loretta Steiner, Russell Quigley, Graham Ashby, __________ (leaning).

Front: Jimmy Yates, Ross Carroll, Eddie Steiner, Gerrard Steiner, Anton Steiner, __________, John Rakels, Wendy Watene, Gregory Steiner, Brenda Martin-Smith, __________, Kevin Leech.

Calf Club Awards, October 1964. Murray Jones, Jimmy Yates and Terry Drayton.

Fathers v Sons football match.

A father was expected to ‘fall over’ once an opponent had wrapped their arms around him. The games inevitably ended in draws or close victories to the sons. The mothers played the daughters at basketball (netball).

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1965 ENROLMENTS 1965 CLARKE, Susan Fay ............................. February CLARKE, Wayne Charles .................... February DALLY, Donna Joy............................... February DAVID, Joshua...................................... February GATEHOUSE, Christopher Charles...... February GATEHOUSE, Peter Clifford ............... February NICHOLSON, Mark Russell ................. February RYBURN, Nicola Judith ....................... February HOLLAND, Kevin Leslie.......................... March KIRKWOOD, Patricia Rose ...................... March TINNEY, Rodger....................................... March KIRKWOOD, Kahi ..................................... April NASH, James Robert................................... April ROBINSON, Kevin John............................. April BOGIE, Ian....................................................May CHANDLER, Heather Mary..........................May JONES, Patricia Ellen................................... June THOMPSON, Kenneth Douglas................... June DIXON, Jillian............................................... July JOHNSTON, Gaylene ................................... July KIRKWOOD, Charlotte ................................ July HOETA, Ernest....................................September BRUNGAR, Carole Ann .........................October FORREST, Paul Andrew .........................October THOMPSON, Lynnette Jean ...................October DAVIDSON, Sharon Joyce ................. November KENDRICK, Christopher Firby .......... November LEECH, Lianne Maree ........................ November 1965 Events þ First space walk by Alexei Leonov of USSR. þ Sir Winston Churchill dies. þ Last steam express travels North Island main trunk line. þ Kimihia School appoints third teacher with role at 71. þ Waikato University opens. þ National and International flights commence from Mangere airport.

March ® The school opened with a role of 61 with Mick Mather taking up the appointment of Principal. ® Twenty parents attended the first meeting of the PTA where Mrs Marion Bogie gave an address on the teaching of number in the infant room. Working evenings for the making of infant number apparatus were arranged. The men met a few weeks later and constructed sorting boxes, a guillotine base, number apparatus as well as painting various items for the infant room, while the women did their part in apparatus construction.

April ® The Vice-Regal visit to Huntly by Sir Bernard and Lady Ferguson was watched by Standards 2 to Form 2, who attended the civic reception at the War Memorial Hall. ® A Householders’ Meeting for the election of the School Committee saw eleven in attendance. Ron Holland was elected chairman. Committee members were B. Grut (secretary), G. White, Dick Yates and John Rakels. ® A boys team assembled at Raukamanga for the cross country. The boys had done considerable training for

their events. The results were: Seniors - Rex Ashby (3rd), Wayne Clarke (4th) and Peter Hiki (7th). Intermediate Wayne Clarke (4th). Junior - Ross Grut (8th). The senior girls attended a gymnastic rally at the Huntly West Hall.

June ® The PTA held a games evening with a good attendance of school children.

July ® A rugby and basketball sports day against Rotongaro saw the Kimihia girls win the basketball 21-7 and their male counterparts lose the rugby 0-6.

August ® Mr Humphrey, the school traffic officer, spoke at the PTA meeting.

September ® Calves were entered by Jimmy Yates and Murray Jones in the Huntly Primary School’s Calf Club Day. October ® Cars and trailers for the PTA bottle drive were supplied

by I. Quigley and R. Mather with Ron Holland supplying a truck. The drive started at 8:30am with the assistance of several pupils and was finished by 12:30pm, earning £27. ® Kimihia school appointed its third teacher with the roll at 71. Mrs B. Kendrick of Kimihia Road began duties in the prefab that had arrived on the ground early in term three, on October 11th. This eased the overcrowding in Marion Bogie’s room from 33 to 16. The prefab had been delayed on its journey from Te Kauwhata due to the extensive flooding of the Huntly area at that time. During the flooding, Kimihia was the only school still able to operate, much to the annoyance of the local pupils. ® The school seniors participated in a Huntly District primary Schools Social Studies display at Huntly College with a Cambodian theme. ® Plans for the new school had been drawn up, to open in 1967.

November ® The PTA Annual General Meeting saw in attendance Mesdames Watene, Manaia, Johnson, Martin-Smith, Rakels, Bogie and Carroll along with Messrs Rakels, Quigley, Jones and Mather. The committee was made up of Mr E. Jones (chairman), Mrs J. Martin-Smith (secretary), and the committee of Mesdames Watene, Johnson, Holland, Rakels, Hart and Mather (head teacher). ® Mr Hopkins, the Reading Advisor for the South Auckland Education Board was to address the PTA but was unable to attend and was replaced by Mr J. O’Sullivan who spoke on his work at the Whitiora Speech Clinic. ® The Kimihia School Flower Show and Gala Day was held on the 30th November in excellent weather.

10:00am to 12:00 noon saw flower judging by - Mrs Wright (cut flowers) and - Mrs Sutherland (decorative).

11:15am - judging of pets by Mr Rosser.

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Site plan for the proposed new Kimihia School to be built on Tamihana Avenue, a new subdivision off Russell Road. The school would be ready for the beginning of the 1967 year and would be officially opened later that same year.

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12 noon to 1:00pm - picnic lunch with parents with cordial provided for the children.

1:00pm - Stalls opened.

Mr Cope held a nail driving competition. The Lucky Dips at 9 pence each were held for both boys and girls separately. Mr Grut and Ron Holland ran a shooting gallery at 1 penny a shot with 3 pence returned for a hit on the target.

2:00pm - Mrs Ryburn and Mrs Leach conducted a Baby Show and a Doll’s Competition. Ž Flower Show results: Single Rose Kevin Robinson 1st, Jimmy Nash 2nd, Ivan White 3rd.

Florabunda Murray Jones 1st, Natalie Watene 2nd, Kevin Robinson 3rd.

Best Gladioli Kevin Leech 1st, Ross Grut 2nd, Lorraine Cope 3rd.

Best 3 Gerberas (A) Peter Hart 1st, Kevin Hart 2nd.

Best 3 Gerberas (B) Deane Carroll 1st, Ross Carroll 2nd, Mark Foster 3rd.

Best 3 Carnations Sheryl Grut 1st, Valmay Dally 2nd, Ross Grut 3rd.

Sweet Peas Wayne Clarke 1st, Ross Grut 2nd, Gaylene Johnston 3rd.

Pansies Jimmy Nash 1st, Ross Carroll 2nd, Deane Carroll 3rd.

Lily 1 stem Peter Hart 1st, Jimmy Nash 2nd, Deane Carroll 3rd.

Iceland Poppies Jimmy Nash 1st, Brian White 2nd, Deane Carroll 3rd.

Best Bloom Murray Jones 1st, Kevin Leech 2nd, Peter Hart 3rd.

1 Stem Flowering Shrub Ian Bogie 1st, Peter Hart 2nd, Mark Foster 3rd.

3 Flowering Shrubs Euan Nicholson 1st, Natalie Watene 2nd, Ross Carroll 3rd.

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Floating Bowl A Ross Carroll 1st.

Floating Bowl B Polly Pere 1st, Paula Thompson 2nd, Deane Carroll 3rd.

Floating Bowl C Heather Chandler 1st, Sandra Quigley 2nd, Carole Brungar 3rd.

Sand Saucer A Sheryl Grut 1st, Peter Hiki 2nd, Charlotte Kirkwood 3rd.

Sand Saucer B Catherine Kirkwood 1st, Polly Pere 2nd, Bronwyn Jones 3rd.

Sand Saucer C Kevin Hart 1st, Carole Brungar 2nd, Sandra Quigley 3rd.

Garden on a Tray A Lorraine Cope 1st, Sheryl Grut 2nd, Natalie Watene 3rd.

Garden on a Tray B Paula Thompson 1st, Catherine Kendrick 2nd, Billy Jones 3rd.

Garden on a Tray C Carole Brungar 1st, Leanne Leech 2nd, Gaylene Johnston 3rd.

Christmas Decoration A Wayne Clarke 1st, Russell Quigley 2nd, John Quigley 3rd.

Christmas Decoration B Ian Bogie 1st, Faye Giles 2nd, Catherine Kendrick 3rd.

Christmas Decoration C Heather Chandler 1st, Chris Kendrick 2nd.

Aqua Bowl A Susan Clarke 1st, Jimmy Yates 2nd, Ross Carroll 3rd.

Aqua Bowl B Paul White 1st, Ian Bogie 2nd, Peter Hart 3rd.

Aqua Bowl C Hart 1st, Brett Holland 2nd, Sharyn Davidson 3rd.

Vegetable Novelty A Peter Hart 1st.

Vegetable Novelty B Ken Thompson 1st, Robert Thompson 2nd, Paula Thompson 3rd.

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Gent’s Buttonhole A Ross Carroll 1st, Joshua David 2nd, Graeme Ashby 3rd.

Gent’s Buttonhole B Catherine Kendrick 1st, Euan Nicholson 2nd, Peter Hart 3rd.

Gent’s Buttonhole C Kevin Hart 1st, Sharyn Davidson 2nd, Brenda Martin-Smith 3rd.

4-6 Native Trees (pressed, mounted and named) Ian Bogie 1st, Sheryl Grut 2nd.

Lemons: Gaylene Johnson 1st, Chris Kendrick 2nd, Peter Hart 3rd.

Potatoes: Deane Carroll 1st, Ross Carroll 2nd, Gaylene Johnson 3rd.

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Silver Beet Wayne Clarke 1st, Rodger Tinney 2nd, Deane Carroll 3rd.

Rhubarb Brett Holland 1st, Kevin Robinson 2nd, Leanne Leech 3rd.

Lettuce Rodger Tinney 1st, Kevin Robinson 2nd, Brenda Martin-Smith 3rd.

Cooking (Sponge) Sheryl Grut 1st, Lorraine Cope 2nd, Carolyn Thompson 3rd.

December ® The Christmas and End-of-Year social was held in the St John’s Ambulance Hall on Wednesday 15th. The programme included singing games, plays, physed displays, songs with actions along with free ice creams and sweets for the children. ® The school year ended on Friday 17th at 2pm.

The Kimihia Mine village.

The canal shown running across between the village and the mine maintenance area was the site of the original railway line out to the underground mine established in the 1890s. In the early 1950s, as the opencast areas were extended to the west, the rails were realigned to the north (shown) and the old rail bed was deepened to act as a drainage canal. This was necessary as the mine pit provided a major obstacle to the natural drainage of the area south of the lake.

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1966 1966 Events þ Original Kimihia School closes at the end of the year and moves to new site. þ Unmanned Soviet spacecraft lands on the moon. þ Mine waste slide at Aberfan, Wales, kills 144, mainly children. þ Queen Atairangikaahu crowned.

ENROLMENTS 1966 BURDES, Michael Newrick .................. February GILES, Jeffery Steven Rae .................... February GILES, Julie Elanor Mae....................... February GILES, Norman Paul............................. February GILES, Susan Virginia .......................... February GILES, Walter Dean.............................. February HOLLAND, Lynley Robyn.................... February KENDRICK, Catherine Anne................ February KENDRICK, Pamela Jane ..................... February MANAIA, Robert .................................. February TUMAI, Kere ........................................ February TUMAI, Meriana................................... February TUMAI, Tukotahi.................................. February EDWARDS, Epere .................................... March DIXON, Yvonne.......................................... April UNU, Ngatupuna Tangiia ............................ April ROTANA, Heta ............................................ June TINNEY, Denise Rose ................................. June HORROX, David........................................... July SYME, Graeme Bruce ................................... July CARTER, Denise May ........................September DARKE, Ernest John...........................September DARKE, Patricia Joy...........................September TAIPARI, Carl John ............................September TURNER, Gary ...................................September TURNER, Richard Parata....................September UNU, Nan Tangiia...............................September UNU, Ngatupuna Tangiia ....................September CASTLE, Kevin James........................ November CASTLE, Sharon Anne ....................... November FORREST, Jaqueline Frances ............. November REID, Alexander ................................. November REID, Nicholas.................................... November TAUROA, Elaine................................. November TAUROA, Rona .................................. November Hit Songs of 1966 1 Distant Drums (Jim Reeves), 2 Green Green Grass of Home (Tom Jones), 3 The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore (Walker Brothers), 4 Yellow Submarine / Eleanor Rigby (Beatles), 5 These Boots Are Made For Walkin' (Nancy Sinatra), 6 Strangers in The Night (Frank Sinatra), 7 Reach Out I'll Be There (Four Tops), 8 Pretty Flamingo (Manfred Mann), 9 Michelle (Overlanders), 10 Good Vibrations (Beach Boys), February ® The school opened with a roll of 76. The staff comprised Marion Bogie (infants), A. D. (Sandy) MacDonald (P3S2) and R. Mather (S3-F2). Mr A. D. MacDonald’s appointment is of special interest as he is a Kimihia

ex-pupil - his schooling of course being in the solecharge days. ® School swimming instruction was commenced at the Huntly baths between 10 and 11 am daily with transport

by Simpson’s bus. The response from parents was good with the children thoroughly enjoying their instruction and their progress was most gratifying. The infants made rapid progress.

March ® Thirty-eight children travelled by cars to the Founders Theatre in Hamilton to see the NZ Ballet presentation of character dances from Petrouchka as well as the final act from Sleeping Beauty. Admission was 2/6. ® Miss Jocelyn Ross, the specialist visiting teacher of the deaf from Hamilton attended the PTA meeting to give an account of her work to an attendance of 12. ® The school competed in the inter-school athletics at the Huntly Domain. Peter Hiki was first in the senior boys high jump (4’ 4”) and Carolyn Thompson was first in the senior girls shot put.

April ® The seniors travelled to Ohinewai for softball matches against both Ohinewai and Waiterimu schools on Thursday 21st. The children played very well in this non-competitive fixture. This was the second year that the boys team were able to maintain a top side, defeating all-comers except for an unexpected loss to Huntly West during the year. The team was made up of Peter Hiki (pitcher), Jimmy Yates (catcher), Murray Jones (1st base), Wayne Clark (2nd base), Graham Ashby (3rd base), Clive Ashby (short stop), Joshua Davis (outfield), William Watene (outfield) and Russell Quigley (outfield). ® The cross-country run for boys was held at Rakaumanga on 29th. The Kimihia boys had trained well during their dinner hours. Placegetters were: Seniors - Wayne Clarke 3rd, Jimmy Yates 12th, Wally Giles 18th. Intermediates Clive Ashby 6th, Kahi Kirkwood 23rd, Ian Bogie 30th, William Watene 40th. Juniors - Robert Thompson 9th, Stuart Quigley 10th, Euan Nicholson 25th, Dean Carroll 31st, Kere Tumai 39th. ® On Tuesday 26th the PTA listened to an interesting account of teaching experiences in Samoa given by Mr K. Berryman, the Advising Teacher for Rural Schools. At this same meeting the PTA approved the purchase of £33 worth of books for the school. A bottle drive four days later raised £28.

May ® On Thursday 26th a public meeting was held in the school to discuss the building of baths at the new Kimihia school. There were 30 present and it was decided to go ahead and endeavour to raise the money for the project.

Elected to the Baths Committee were Ron Holland (chairman), B. Grut (secretary), I. Quigley, E. Jones, R. Yates, G. White, J. Rakels, R. Mather, J. Chandler, J. Martin-Smith and F. Forrest.

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New Entrants, Primers 1 and 2, 1966 - Teacher Marion Bogie Rear: Mark Foster, ____________ , Jimmy Nash, Boy Turner, Paul Forrest, Jacky Rakels, Ken Thompson, Simon Burdes, ____________, Geoffrey Giles, Ernest Darke.

Centre: Lynley Holland, ____________, Heather Chandler, Donna Dally, Lynnette Thompson, Nan Turner, Leanne Leach, Carole Brungar, Gaylene Johnson, Patricia Jones.

Front: Mark Foster, Chris Kendrick, David Horrox, Rodger Tinney, Selwyn Watene, Kevin Holland, Robert Manaia, Lex _________.

Districts Field Day in which Kimihia fielded one complete 10-aside rugby team in the 6 stone competition, in which they were unbeaten. ® Collectors called on homes in the area for donations towards the baths project. £140 was raised.

July ® Mr Miller, a Gordon & Gotch salesman, spoke at the PTA meeting.

August ® On the 16th the PTA held a film evening where two humorous films were shown followed by two films from the Japanese Embassy. ® During the August holidays the ladies from the baths committee held a most successful day at Garden Place in Huntly. Their ‘opportunity shop’ earned £95. The response from all ladies in the district with donations of sewing, cooking and second-hand clothing was excellent.

On the same day (Friday 26th) the men from the baths committee conducted a ‘pig in the barrow’ raffle which netted £60 profit.

September ® A bottle drive raised £32 for the baths fund. Involved were Ron Holland, G. White, R. Forrest, N. Burdes, G. Chandler, A. MacDonald and R. Mather. ® On Thursday 29th a public meeting was held at the Kimihia school at 7:30pm to report on fund-raising activities to date, provide a financial statement and to discuss proposals for further fund-raising activities.

November ® Sixty-four children attended a presentation of the play ‘The Hunters and the Henwife’ by the Southern Comedy Players held in the Huntly Town Hall. Mrs M. Bogie was in attendance. Mr A. MacDonald took the softball team to Huntly west School to play. ® On the 29th the Kimihia School Flower Show and Gala Day was held despite the unsuitable weather. Much of the programme had to be rearranged, but the children thoroughly enjoyed the day and, whilst attendance was not as good as expected on a fine day, the profit from the sales and raffles realised £45. The children were congratulated on the way they conducted themselves despite the pouring rain, and for making a success of a very difficult day.. It was a special day, being the last public day at the Kimihia School.

December ® On the 3rd another bottle drive was held in the Kimihia area raising £19. Helpers were R. Holland, G. White, N. Burdes, G. Chandler and R. Mather. ® An excellent muster of helpers attended to repolish furniture to be transferred to the new Kimihia School.

These were R. Holland, B. Grut, D. Reid, A. Leech, I. Foster, G. White, R. Darke, J. Nash, R. Nicholson, D. Hart, I. Quigley, E. Jones, D. Bogie, N. Burdes and L. Holland. This project added £67 to the baths fund. ® On December 14th at 7:30 in the evening a large crowd attended the school’s final function for the year in the St John Ambulance Hall. Items presented by the school children were well received by parents and as special treats we had a magician’s act by Mr R. Irving and a

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presentation of slides of ‘yesteryear’ by Mr Drayton. The slides showing events of previous years were most appropriate, this being the final function of Kimihia School. ® Presentations on behalf of the school children and the School Committee were made by Miss Sheryl Grut of Form 1 and Mr Ron Holland (chairman) to Mr & Mrs R. Mather. These gifts provided treasured memories for the Mathers of two very happy years at Kimihia School. ® School closed at 2pm on Friday the 10th, being the final day of the old school, it was quite an occasion. The school was well-equipped and when this was transferred to the new school it would ensure an excellent start for the new Kimihia School in February 1967.

Signed - R. (Mick) Mather, Head Teacher, 16.12.66 Up until the closure at the end of 1966 the school had been used for the past 70 years as the centre of district affairs from kitchen evening to political meetings, as the area had no hall.

In 1966 a new Kimihia School was started off Russell Road in Tamihana Avenue and a new bin was built at the mine where the coal train now only visited once a week. The Waikato Times reported on 15th March 1966: “A new primary school at Kimihia, Huntly, is due to be opened either in the third term of this year or at the beginning of next.

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contract is set at October 23, and it is most likely the school will be opened next year.

“With the opening of the new school the present Kimihia School will be closed.

“Sixty children attend the present Kimihia school, and they will all attend the new school.

“The new school, which will cost £38,500, will have six classrooms, a dental room, games room and administration block.

“Some of the building will be completed in Huntly brick veneer, with the rest being finished in timber. Six teachers will be teaching at the school, which will have a capacity for 230 children.

“It is expected that 120 to 130 children will be drawn from the Huntly primary school to attend the new school.

“The site was developed by local contractor Mr L. Masson, at a cost of £4500, and the building will be completed by John Fredrickson, another local contractor.”

The old school (now three-teacher) closed at the end of 1966 and the 90 children were relocated to the new school closer into Huntly with Principal Mick Mather easing the transition by handing over to the new Principal John Lloyd for the 1967 year.

On the 14th of December 1966 the pupils put on what was to be their last end-of-year concert for the parents at the ‘old school’ and the single-sheet programme is shown On May 2nd 1967 the public were informed of the fate of the grand old classroom in a Waikato Times article:

Primer 3 to Standard 2, 1966 - Teacher Sandy MacDonald Rear: George Perry, Jimmy Carter, Stewart Quigley, Paul White, Euan Nicholson, Harold Thompson , ___________, ___________, Brett Holland, Dean Carroll, Kevin Hart.

Centre: Kevin Leach, Carol White, Sandra Rakels, Bronwyn Jones, Debbie Holland, Valmay Dally, Catherine Kendrick, Bernice Fredrickson, Kahlua Ashby, Wendy Watene, Mark Foster.

Front: Pamela Kendrick, Nicky Ryburn, Brenda Martin-Smith, Eleanor Giles, Patricia Darke, Polly Pere.

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Standard 3 to Form 2, 1966 - Teacher Mick Mather Rear: Ross Carroll, Murray Jones, Peter Hiki, Brian White, Stuart White, Ivan White.

3rd Row: John Quigley, Ian Bogie, Clive Ashby, Ross Grut, Bill Giles, ____________, Norman Giles, Peter Hart, Bill Jones.

2nd Row: Robert Thompson, Susan Giles, Sheryl Grut, Sharon Castle, Carolyn Thompson, Rangi Pere, Yvonne Dixon, Russell Quigley.

Front: Joanne Rakels, Fay Giles, Paula Thompson, Rona Tauroa, Polly Pere.

The historic Kimihia School may be moved from its present site to be used for a library at Melville School.

“Although we much applaud the Huntly Jaycees’ desire to convert the building into a monument or museum to the Kimihia district, the education of our children must take precedence.” Mr K. C. M. Cockerill, general manager of the South Auckland Education Board, Hamilton, told The Times.

“For some years now, no libraries have been built at primary schools. The board has been trying to get the Government to change its policy on this for some time, but without success.

“So in the meantime we are using any room not suitable as a classroom for this purpose. We were delighted to see at Broadlands School near Rotorua where the old school block of 350-400 sq. ft was shifted and fitted with shelves and other library fittings by the local P.T.A. Now the board is maintaining the building.

“The same thing is possible at Melville. Mr Dickie, the headmaster, noticed the old Kimihia building, and realised that it would be ideal for this purpose.

“The P.T.A. has been asked to meet the cost of carrying the building and setting it up as a library. It will be ideal, as it is too small for use as an ordinary classroom.”

Library work was becoming an important subject, Mr Cockerill said, as library work of all kinds was becoming more a part of modern school procedure. The board agreed that Kimihia school would not be put up for auction, as is the normal procedure.

“The board is wholeheartedly behind the move,” he said.

“The project will be completed at no cost to the taxpayer, and the board will continue to maintain the building on completion of the work.”

Mr P.Leather, a Huntly Jaycee, said he had hoped the old school would become a local monument and museum.

“It was built in 1897 at a cost of £190, and four generations of the earlier families have passed through it,” he said. “Since the time when Kimihia was a coalmining town with farming as one of the sidelines, the school has been used as a centre for district affairs in the absence of a local hall. It has now been vacant since the beginning of the year, when the new school was occupied.”

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The Rosser Block The southern section of the large farm area belonging to Len Rosser, bounded by Kimihia Road (bottom), Russells Road (right) and Hakanoa Street (left). This community sent some of its children east to the Kimihia School while others walked south to the Huntly Primary School.

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1967 - Into a new era 1967 Events þ Six-day war between Israel and Arabs. þ Three US astronauts killed in rocket launch. þ Christiaan Barnard performs first heart transplant. þ Milk-in-schools scheme ends. þ Decimal currency introduced. þ Pubs close at 10pm.

Popular Songs of 1967.

1 Release Me (Englebert Humperdinck), 2 A Whiter Shade of Pale (Procol Harum), 3 The Last Waltz (Engelbert Humperdinck), 4 Massachusetts (Bee Gees), 5 Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair (Scott McKenzie), 6 I'm a Believer (Monkees), 7 Hello Goodbye (Beatles), 8 All You Need is Love (Beatles), 9 Puppet on a String (Sandic Shaw), 10 Silence is Golden (Tremeloes), 11 Somethin' Stupid (Nancy Sinatra and Frank Sinatra), 12 Baby Now That I've Found You (Foundations), 13 Let the Heartaches Begin (Long John Baldry), 14 Green Green Grass of Home (Tom Jones), 15 This is my Song (Petula Clark), 16 I'll Never Fall in Love Again (Tom Jones), 17 There Goes My Everything (Engelbert Humperdinck), 18 Penny Lane / Strawberry Fields Forever (Beatles), 19 Flowers in the Rain (Move), 20 Mathew and Son (Cat Stevens), 21 Morningtown Ride (Seekers), 22 Dedicated to The One I Love (Mamas and Papas), 23 Edelweiss (Vince Hill), 24 This is My Song (Harry Secombe), 25 I'm Coming Home (Tom Jones), 26 Magical Mystery Tour (Beatles), 27 Carrie Anne (Hollies).

ENROLMENTS 1967 As it was a new school opening all children were reenrolled.

ASHBY, Graeme George ..................................February ASHBY, Kallua Jayne .......................................February ASHBY, Shelaine Emily ...................................February ASHBY, Stanley Clive ......................................February BOGIE, Donald .................................................February BOGIE, Ian........................................................February BRUNGAR, Carole Ann ...................................February BURDES, Michael ............................................February CARROLL, Dean Rodney .................................February CARROLL, Perry Ross .....................................February CARTER, Denise May ......................................February CARTER, James Robey ....................................February CASTLE, Kevin James......................................February CASTLE, Sharon...............................................February CHALLINOR, Anne Kerry ...............................February CHALLINOR, Deborah Ann.............................February CHANDLER, Heather May...............................February CHANDLER, Murray Gordon ..........................February CLARKE, Wayne Murray .................................February COWLEY, Aiden Foster ...................................February

COWLEY, Jan-Maree....................................... February DALLY, Donna Joy .......................................... February DALLY, Valmay Margaret ............................... February DARKE, Ernest John ........................................ February DARKE, Patricia Joy ........................................ February DAVID (TIANANGA), Joshua (Iosiu)............. February DEBENHAM, Valma Eunice ........................... February DIXON, Barry Mana......................................... February DIXON, Clive ................................................... February DIXON, Isobelle ............................................... February DIXON, Roberta ............................................... February DIXON, Yvonne ............................................... February DOUGALL, Catherine Heather ........................ February DUNSTAN, Peter Albert .................................. February DUNSTAN, Stephen Andrew ........................... February DUNSTAN, Suzanne Wendy............................ February EDWARDS (PERE), Rangi .............................. February EDWARDS, Epere ........................................... February FLETCHER, Brent Herbert .............................. February FLETCHER, Karen Grace ................................ February FLETCHER, Peter Albert ................................. February FORREST, Jaqueline Francis ........................... February FORREST, Paul Andrew .................................. February FOSTER, Mark Lawrence ................................ February FRANSHAM, Patricia Helen............................ February FRANSHAM, Raewyn janice ........................... February FRANSHAM, Steven John ............................... February FREDRICKSON, Bernice Mary ....................... February FREDRICKSON, John Harry ........................... February GERRAND, Andrea Elizabeth.......................... February GILES, Annabelle Valmay Rose....................... February GILES, Catherine May...................................... February GILES, Fiona Jane ............................................ February GILES, Jeffrey Steven Ray ............................... February GILES, Julie Elanor Mae .................................. February GILES, Norman Paul ........................................ February GILES, Peter Raymond..................................... February GILES, Phillip Ross.......................................... February GILES, Stuart John ........................................... February GILES, Virginia Susan...................................... February GILES, Vivienne Faye ...................................... February GILL, Michael Roger........................................ February GILL, Phillip John ............................................ February GILL, Suzanne Carol ........................................ February GRUT, Ross owen ............................................ February GRUT, Sheryl Louise........................................ February HAMILTON, Ann Patrice ................................ February HART, Kevin Clayton ...................................... February HART, Peter David........................................... February HARTIS, Max................................................... February HIRIAKI, Antony David................................... February HIRIAKI, Jeffrey Moses................................... February HIRIAKI, Muranga Moana............................... February HIRIAKI, Ricky William.................................. February HIRIAKI, Tania Ngatohe.................................. February HOETA, Ernest Douglas Taukiri ...................... February HOLLAND, Brett Ronald................................. February HOLLAND, Deborah Jane................................ February HOLLAND, Kevin Leslie ................................. February HOLLAND, Lynley Robin................................ February HORROX, David .............................................. February

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HOUSLEY, Glenys Kay.................................... February HUNT, Mark Gregory ....................................... February HUNT, Paul Jeffrey........................................... February IVORY, Paul Dennis ......................................... February JOHNSTON, Gaylene ....................................... February JONES, Bronwyn Ann....................................... February JONES, Patricia Ellen ....................................... February JONES, William Hadyn .................................... February KENDRICK, Catherine Anne............................ February KENDRICK, Christopher Firby ........................ February KENDRICK, Pamela Jane................................. February LARSEN, Shelley Louise .................................. February LARSEN, Trevor Dean ..................................... February LEECH, Kevin Paul .......................................... February LEECH, Leanne Maree ..................................... February LIMMER, John ................................................. February LLOYD, Mary Clare ......................................... February LLOYD, Sally Ann............................................ February MANAIA, Robert.............................................. February MARTIN-SMITH, Brenda ................................ February McCORMACK, Craig Roy ............................... February McCORMICK, Bruce Robert............................ February McWATTERS, John Patrick ............................. February McWATTERS, Peter Roy ................................. February MILLER, Corrine Dawn.................................... February MILLER, Kim John........................................... February MILLER, Sherylee ............................................ February NASH, James Thomas....................................... February NICHOLSON, Euan Ross ................................. February NICHOLSON, Mark Russell............................. February PARKINSON, Graeme Noel ............................. February PARKINSON, Susan Joy .................................. February PATERSON, Carol Anne .................................. February PATTERSON, Murray John.............................. February PATTERSON, Peter Douglas ........................... February PERE, Anne....................................................... February PERE, George ................................................... February PERE, Polly....................................................... February PERE, Rangimaria............................................. February PLAS, Karl Edward........................................... February QUIGLEY, John Allan ...................................... February QUIGLEY, Russell Irvine ................................. February QUIGLEY, Sandra Yvonne............................... February QUIGLEY, Stuart.............................................. February RAKELS, Harmanus (Jacky)............................. February RAKELS, Joanne .............................................. February RAKELS, Sandra .............................................. February RALPH, Andrea Grace...................................... February REID, Alexander ............................................... February REID, Nicholas ................................................. February REILLY, Charles Christopher ........................... February RIDLEY, Adrienne Frances .............................. February RIDLEY, Bernard William................................ February RIX, Peter David ............................................... February ROBINSON, Kevin John .................................. February RYBURN, Nicola Judith ................................... February SCOTT, Andrew Verl ....................................... February SCOTT, Brenda Ellen ....................................... February SLATER, Jennifer Gail ..................................... February SLATER, Lorraine Ann..................................... February SLATER, Murray David ................................... February SLEE, Louis George.......................................... February SLEE, Peter John............................................... February SLEE, Stephen Bruce ........................................ February

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STANICH, Andrea Mary .................................. February STANICH, Elizabeth Jane................................. February STANICH, Susan .............................................. February STIRLING, Bruce Donald................................. February STIRLING, Carolyn Anne................................. February STIRLING, Janice Raewyn ............................... February STIRLING, Julie Marie..................................... February STIRLING, Kevin David .................................. February STIRLING, Paqul Sidney.................................. February SYME, Graeme Bruce....................................... February TAIPARI, Carl John.......................................... February TAPP, Jan Maree............................................... February THOMSON, Geoffrey Davies ........................... February THOMPSON, Harold Percy.............................. February THOMPSON, Kenneth Douglas ....................... February THOMPSON, Lynette Jean............................... February THOMPSON, Paula Rangi-o-rere ..................... February THOMPSON, Robert ........................................ February THOMSON, William Murray ........................... February TILSON, Linda Ruth......................................... February TILSON, Mark Julian........................................ February TILSON, Philip Raymond ................................. February TINNEY, Denise Rose ...................................... February TINNEY, Rodger .............................................. February TURNER, Gary ................................................. February TURNER, Richard Parata ................................. February UNU (TURNER), Ngatupuna Tangaiia (Boy) .. February UNU, Nan Tangia.............................................. February VAN KAMPEN, Robert Ashley........................ February VITASOVICH (WHITE), Ivan George ............ February VITASOVICH (WHITE), Paul Carl ................. February WALLACE, Diane ............................................ February WATENE, Linda Elaine.................................... February WATENE, Lorraine Gwendolyn ....................... February WATENE, Pamela Dorothy .............................. February WATENE, Selwyn TeMonoao.......................... February WATENE, Wendy............................................. February WATENE, William Kenneth............................. February WEBB, Glenda Lois.......................................... February WEBB, Jennifer Alice ....................................... February WHITE, Carol June........................................... February YATES, James Alan.......................................... February AINSWORTH, Gillian Nellie .................................April HOLLAND, Leanne Rosalie ...................................April de JAGER, Helen ..................................................... May de JAGER, Robert Hermanus................................... May DOBSON, Julie Lorraine ......................................... May SOLOMON, Margaret.............................................. May SOLOMON, Robert ................................................. May SOLOMON, Russell................................................. May THOMPSON, Gary Lewis........................................ May VAN KAMPEN, Margaret ....................................... May THOMSON, John Andrew ....................................... June COOPER, Jennifer Anne ...........................................July FROMM, Karen Anne...............................................July GERRARD, Denise ...................................................July PURCELL, Geoffrey Edward....................................July STEPHENSON, Jan ..................................................July WELLINGTON (TAURUA), Horiana Jean..............July RAKELS, Gary..................................................... August DALLY, Grant Clifford John ......................... September DIXON, Yvonne............................................. September MANAIA, Lorraine ........................................ September NASH, Grant Douglas.................................... September

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1967 New Entrants Rear: Elsie Hatton, Kim Miller, John Frederickson, Boy Turner, Harold Thompson, Ricky Hiriaki, Murray Chandler.

3rd Row: Mick Reid, Lex Reid, Karl Plas, Gary Thompson, Murray Slater.

2nd Row: Leanne Holland, Karen Fletcher, Anne Pere, Jackie Forrest, Jan Tapp, Ann Hamilton.

Front: Carolyn Stirling, Annie Giles, Gillian Ainsworth, Fiona Giles, Andrea Ralph, Julie Stirling, Catherine Dougal.

PAGEL, Brian Leslie...................................... September PAGEL, Gordon McGregor ........................... September TAIPARI, Reid Hati ....................................... September HARTIS, Karen Ann .......................................... October HOETA, Ernest .................................................. October WILSON, Shiralee Ann...................................... October TAUROA, Elaine ........................................... November TAUROA, Rona ............................................. November TILSON, David Graeme................................. November WALLACE, Kevin Lindsay ........................... November GERRAND, Vivienne Kaye ............................December 1st February 1967 ® The teachers assembled today to begin the monumental task of unpacking equipment and preparing for the arrival of 180 children tomorrow. ® The opening day staff was John Lloyd - Headmaster Miss Elsie Hatton - Supervisor Junior Classes Miss Marion Bogie - Assistant Teacher Miss Lyn Challinor - Assistant Teacher Mr Pat Dunn - Assistant Teacher Miss Vivienne Bassick - Probationary Tchr 2nd February ® To the obligato of Cyclone Dinah which yielded 5.6 inches of rain in 24 hours we moved into our rooms and made provision for 180 eager youngsters. There should have been chaos. But there wasn’t, and by 9:05 all children were in their rooms and teaching had begun. This was a credit to both staff and children. The tone seems excellent. Our main worry now is the unfinished nature of the buildings.

® Mr C Wisely and Mr Symmonds, Dominion Executive members of the NZEI visited the school. ® A general meeting of parents was called and attended by over 80 parents. The tone of the meeting was excellent and augers well for the future.

March ® A general Meeting was held and the following committee elected: Mrs R Gill (President), Mrs Fletcher (Secretary), School Representative. ® Mrs L Foster appointed Clerical Assistant. ® After a year of fund-raising to get money for a swimming pool the Treasury cancelled its 650 pound subsidy. Had the school applied a week sooner all would have been well. (This decision was later amended and the subsidy provided ).

April ® The new School Committee was elected. Mr Ron Holland (Chairman), Mrs Ivory (Secretary), G White, B Grut, M Gerrand, T Hunt, E Jones.

May ® Mrs Thomson took over Mrs Challinor’s class in a relieving capacity. ® A group of Hamilton carpenters began to remove the roof from the old school building. ® House names were decided: Kowhai, Matai, Totara and Rimu. Shrubs and trees appropriate to the House names were to be purchased.

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1967 Infants Rear: Andrew Scott, Peter Slee, Graeme Parkinson, Jimmy Nash, Robert Manaia.

3rd Row: Vivienne Bassett, Phillip Gill, David Horrox, Graeme Syme, Michael Burdes, Dean Larsen, Jeffrey Giles.

2nd Row: Ernest Darke, Barry Dixon, Roger Tinney, Kevin Holland, Steven Fransham, Chris Kendrick, Kevin Stirling.

Front: Denise Carter, Diane Wallace, Lynley Holland, Sally Lloyd, Andrea Gerrand, Susan Stanich, Suzanne Dunstan, Sherylee Miller.

June ® Mr Malcolm inspected Miss Hatton (SJC) and Mr P Dunn (assistant master).

August ® An exciting collection of trees and shrubs arrived for planting by the children, which made a great difference to the appearance of the grounds. The cost to the South Auckland Education Board was about £130. ® Some of the mothers of the school worked to paste 1200 Ginn worksheets onto card. ® Two bus-loads of children went to the Auckland Museum, the Zoo and the Institute of Technology. The buses cost £68. ® Following months of discussion and consultation the following non-compulsory school uniform was decided upon: Boys: Grey shorts, grey shirts or cotton-knit T shirts, grey socks with a blue band, grey jerseys with blue neck band. For sports white shorts, white sleeveless singlet or T shirt.

Girls (winter): Navy gym, navy belt, white blouse, royal blue cardigan. (Summer): Simple dress to own pattern using a blue and white small check material. Own choice of stockings.

(Sports): White blouse, black rompers, blue sash when necessary. ® On the 12th the school was officially opened on a day that started out with high winds and torrential rain.

Miraculously the weather cleared itself in time for the

programme to be worked through. The children’s behaviour was first-class. ® The Opening programme: National Anthem Mr R Holland Song -

Recorder Group Chairman School Committee Messers Ron Yates and Reece Jones Mr Holland Senior - Past Chairman of Old Kimihia School Committee Folk Dance Infants Dr Willoughby Mayor of Huntly Folk Dance Senior group Guest Speaker Mr J Allen, Principal of the Hamilton Teacher’s Training College Gymnastic Display - Huntly West School Official Opening Ceremony conducted by Mr Kinsella, Minister of Education Afternoon tea in Rooms 5 and 6 Inspection of school September ® Mrs Foster, Clerical Assistant, resigned as she was leaving the district and Mrs M Gerrand took her place. ® The baths were begun on the 26th by the builder, Mr Rothwell.

October ® Black Monday! The school had some large Power Board

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1967 Std 1 Rear: Tony Hiriaki, Kevin Robinson, Phillip Tilson, Gary McCormack, Bruce Stirling, Peter Patterson.

3rd Row: ______________, ______________, Peter Dunstoun, Paul White, ______________, ______________, Peter Fletcher.

2nd Row: _____________, _____________, Shellaine Ashby, Carol White, Jennifer Slater, _____________, _____________, Brett Holland.

Front: Gaylene Johnstone, Carol Brungar, ____________________, Susan Stanich, Catherine Giles, Patricia Jones, Leanne Leach.

1967 Std 1, Std 2 Rear: Rangi Edwards, Peter Giles, Steven Dunstan, Geoff Thomson.

4th Row: Mark Foster, Kevin McDonald, Murray Patterson, Aiden Cowley, Mark Foster, Kevin Castle.

3rd Row: Mark Nicholson, Kevin Leach, Paul Hunt, ___________________, James Carter, ___________________, Jackie Rakels.

2nd Row: Teacher Marion Bogie, _______________Pere, Mira Hiriaki, Deborah Challinor, Valma Debenham, Shelley Larsen, Glenda Webb, Bernice Frederickson, Jan Maree Cowley.

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1967 Forms 1 & 2 Rear: Donald Bogie, William Watene, Mark Tilson, Max Hartis, Peter Rix, Paul Ivory.

3rd Row: Principal John Lloyd, Jim Yates, Joshua David, Charles Reilly, Craig McCormack, Ross Carroll, Ivan Vitasovich, Wayne Clarke, Paul Stirling.

2nd Row: Susan Giles, Graeme Ashby, Russell Quigley, Louis Slee, Phillip Giles, Jeffrey Hiriaki.

1967 Stds 3 & 4 Rear: Brent Fletcher, Ross Grut, Bill Jones, John Quigley, Norman Giles, Peter Hart.

4th Row: Stuart Giles, John McWatters, Robert Thompson, Euan Nicholson, Murray Thompson, Clive Ashby, Dean Carroll, Michael Gill. rd Row: Lorraine Noble, student teacher, Ian Bogie, Stuart Quigley, Deborah Holland, Valmay Dally, Susan Parkinson, Sandra Rakels, Bernard Ridley, Teacher Pat Dunn.

2nd Row: Corrine Miller, Tania Hiriaki, Catherine Kendrick, Elizabeth Stanich, Pamela Watene, Linda Tilson, Raewyn Fransham, Yvonne Dixon.

Front: Bronwyn Jones, Sally Lloyd, Sharon Castle, Carol Paterson, Paula Thompson, Jennifer Webb, Adrienne Ridley, Suzanne Gill,

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reels donated for playground equipment. Mark Tilson fell off one and broke his arm as well as the leg of Kenna Robinson, on whom he fell.

November ® The Std 3 and 4 children from Mr Dunn’s room made a three-day visit to Maihihi on an educational tour. Thanks to careful planning and parent co-operation, this was a great success. ® The baths are now full although some minor finishing remains to be done before use. On the 17th the children had an unofficial opening of the baths. Karen Hartis, who was the most recent entrant, made the first plunge.

December ® On the 11th the school concert and breakup ceremony were held. Awards were made to the best performed children in each class. Dux - Patricia Fransham; Runnerup - Ross Carroll. This was a splendid evening with 200 adults and 200 children in attendance. All were accommodated in the double-room. The air supply was taxed!

It was a rarity for a new school in New Zealand to open with a ready-built pool available for use by the pupils. Through fund-raising by parents and pupils of the ‘old’ school and a grant from the Government, this was made a reality . During the ‘50s consideration had been given to constructing a pool at the old site when the Kimihia lake became a swimming impossibility and swimming lessons there had to be curtailed. The mining contractors (Downer & Co.) were prepared to make their heavy earthmoving machinery available for such a purpose at that time. In November 1967 Karen Hartis became the first pupil to swim in the pool following an official opening.

Kimihia School 1967 (Photograph taken July 1967 prior to moving it to Melville Primary School for use as a Library).

At the Melville Primary School, over a period of time, the building was re-blocked, re-clad and re-roofed to a point where all that remained of the original structure were the internal timbers and so the building is no longer recognisable as the historic structure it once was.

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(Above) The Official Party at the opening of the Kimihia School, Saturday 12th August 1967 From left: Dr Willoughby (Mayor of Huntly), Mr Kinsella (Minister of Education), Mr Thomas (Chairman of the South Auckland Education Board), Mrs Thomas, Mrs Allen, Mr Allen (Principal of the Hamilton Teachers’ Training College), Mr Lloyd (Headmaster), Mr Alfred Holland (Past Chairman of the Old Kimihia School Committee). Below the Minister of Education Mr Kinsella addresses the gathering.

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Kimihia School Opens “A new school at Kimihia, Huntly was officially opened by the Minister of Education Mr Kinsella, at 1.30 this afternoon.

“The school has six classrooms, administration blocks and dental clinic.

“The headmaster of the new school which has been in use since the beginning of the year, Mr J. Lloyd, said the school had a roll of about 200 pupils.”

Infant and senior pupils presented folkdances and a gymnastic group from Huntly West School gave a fine display. Sheryll Drew, the Head Prefect, presented flowers.

Mr Kinsella Speaks At School Opening HPR -

A ‘New Look’ School Huntly - Building a new school in brick was quite a departure for his department, said the Minister of education, Mr Kinsella, officially opening the new Kimihia Primary School on Saturday.

The new school is built of bricks obtained from Huntly.

“This is because the role here should stay at 200, or perhaps rise in the future, and because brick is quite a cheap material in Huntly,” he continued. “The trend today for for an entirely new type of school with a permanent block for the role it is thought the school will eventually have, and transportable classrooms to cope with the role when the area is developing.”

“These are manufactured off the site and can be picked up and placed at another school when more accommodation is needed there.

At Turangi, the whole school has been put together in this way,” said the Minister.

‘NODULES’ “In Hawkes Bay, schools are made from ‘nodules’ which are fitted together . . .” he continued.

Mr Kinsella mentioned that the oneroomed school-house cost $400 in 1897, and this one was $100,000. The old school was later transferred to the Crown at a cost of $30 for the legal fees.

“We first approached the Minister for a new school in 1964,” said Mr R Holland, chairman of the school committee.

SWIMMING POOL “The new swimming baths will be started in a short time, and this must be one of the few schools to have enough money for this purpose before it is officially opened,” he continued.

Built in a rectangle around a play and assembly area, the school comprises six classrooms, administration block and dental clinic. It has an informal play area down the hill on one side of the school. It serves a developing area.

“This is a new departure in school building,” said the Minister of Education, Mr Kinsella, opening the new Kimihia School in Russell Road on Saturday.

Mr Kinsella said the Kimihia School was one of the first to be built in permanent materials.

As the school population in the area was expected to remain stable at its present figure for many years, the Kimihia school had been built of Huntly brick and the buildings were permanent. Departmental policy now was to erect school buildings in the builder’s yard and transport them to the school sites.

This meant that, if the school population fell, unused classrooms could be taken to an area where the population was expanding; thus saving the taxpayers’ money. This system had been used when building a school at Turangi.

Mr Kinsella instanced some parts of Auckland where schools had been built some years ago to cater for a peak school population, which had since levelled, leaving several empty classrooms. Luckily these could be put to use.

The first school at Kimihia had cost approximately $400 in 1897; today the cost of the new school was more than $100,000.

The first teacher, Mr Maurice Priestley, had later become a school inspector and left his mark on that profession - as no doubt he had on his pupils.

Mr Kinsella urged the present pupils to look after their school. It was their school and the good name of their school would be up to the people in it.

Parents and committee had done a heartening amount of work toward getting swimming baths and beautifying the grounds, and the school could well become first class.

Mr Kinsella then turned the key to officially open the school.

He then granted all the teachers a holiday on Monday - of course the children would not come without the teachers!

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Official Opening of Kimihia School HPRThe head teacher, Mr Lloyd, welcomed distinguished guests, parents, children and friends to the official opening of the new Kimihia School on Saturday.

Rain threatened, but luckily did not fall to spoil the function.

Official guests included the Minister of education, Mr Kinsella, and Mrs Kinsella; Mr D J Carter, MP for Raglan, and Mrs Carter; Mr J Allen, Principal of Hamilton Teachers’ College, and Mrs Allen; Mr J Thomas, chairman of the South Auckland Education Board; the Mayor of Huntly, Dr E E Willoughby; the chairman of the School Committee, Mr Richard Holland, and Mrs Holland; and Mr Holland Sen., chairman of the old School Committee.

Bouquets, arranged by Mrs Gill, were presented to the ladies of the official party by the head prefect of the school, Sheryll Drew.

Mr R Holland welcomed all and expressed his committee’s pleasure at the fine new building.

They had written to the South Auckland Education Board four or five years ago. Board members had come out and the present site had been picked. The beautiful new school had been worth waiting for.

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for swimming baths already raised. They had not been built as the committee thought it was better to wait till the danger of frosts cracking the new concrete had passed.

Mr Holland Sen. said the old committee had applied for a new school a long time ago the application had always been “put on the file.”

Mr Holland recalled going to school many years ago along a tea-tree track.

There was no control heating - only an old stove, which “the teacher stood in front of with an old shillelagh in her hand” - the children didn’t stay long after they reached 14.

He did not think any child would want to leave the new school and hoped they’d look after it.

Kimihia School was really “in the city” now. There were no houses - only a few small shacks - when he was going to school.

BEAUTIFUL LAKE “We used to have a beautiful lake down there for swimming,” said Mr Holland Sen. “Progress cannot be halted and we are left with an ugly scar down there. I hope they can do something about it.”

The Mayor, Dr Willoughby, welcomed all visitors on behalf of the citizens of Huntly and sympathised with the children for having to come to school on Saturday.

Mr Thomas, chairman of the South Auckland Education Board, expressed his pleasure at being present at the opening of the new building.

He had been “one of the gentlemen whose

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elbow Mr Holland had jogged.” He had been horrified when he saw the old building and had agreed a new school was needed.

It was the first one built in permanent material - Mr Kinsella didn’t give them enough money and built in the local Huntly brick.

Mr Thomas expressed his appreciation of the work the headmaster and school committee

had done to get the school functioning, and wished them every success.

Mr J Allen, principal of the Hamilton Teachers’ College, told the pupils why he had to go to school.

Items Given at School Opening HPR-

Official Party at the 1967 opening ceremony.

Rear: Mr Kinsella - Minister of Education, J.B.Lloyd - Head Teacher Kimihia, J.Thomas - Chairman South Auckland Education Board, Dr E.E.Willoughby - Mayor of Huntly.

Middle: Mr Holland Snr - Elderly Past Pupil of the old Kimihia School, D.Carter - MP for Raglan, B.Grut, T.Hunt, J.Allen Principal Hamilton Teachers College.

Front: G.White, Ron Holland - Chairman School Committee, Mrs J.Ivory - Secretary School Committee, E. Jones.

Absent: Mr M.Gerrand.

Schoolchildren provided items of interest to all at the opening of the new Kimihia School.

The School Recorder Group began the proceedings with the National Anthem.

Infants’ classes gave a charming folk dance - “in and out the windows.” One or two appeared to go in the wrong “window,” which, for a sympathetic audience, only added to the fun.

A clever folk dancing display; a Scottish country dance was given by children from the senior school.

Huntly West School gymnastic group Waikato and Auckland school champions gave a clever display in spite of the lack of space.

Two songs by Messrs Yates and Reece Jones was enjoyed by all.

Kimihia pupils folkdancing as part of the day’s entertainment at the official opening of the school, Saturday 17th August, 1967.

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Huntly West School, the Waikato and Auckland Schools gymnastic champions, provide entertainment at the opening.

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Huntly West School, the Waikato and Auckland Schools gymnastic champions, provide entertainment at the opening.

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Mr Allen, Principal of the Hamilton Teachers’ Training College, addressing the gathering.

Mr Thomas, Chairman of the South Auckland Education Board, at the microphone for the opening of Kimhia School.

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1968 1968 Events þ Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy assassinated. þ Inter-island steamer Wahine wrecked on Barret reef during storm; 51 drowned. þ Earthquake in Inangahua. þ Railcar service begins between Wellington and Auckland. þ Mrs Bogie introduces the “new maths” to interested parents at Kimihia School.

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Songs of 1968.

1 Those Were The Days (Mary Hopkins), 2 Young Girl (Union Gap featuring Gary Puckett), 3 The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (Hugo Montenegro), 4 What a Wonderful World / Cabaret (Louis Armstrong), 5 Mony Mony (Tommy James and the Shondells), 6 Cinderella Rockefella (Esther and Abi Ofarim), 7 Lily The Pink (Scaffold), 8 Baby Come Back (Equals),

Hello Goodbye (Beatles), Hey Jude (Beatles), Everlasting Love (Love Affair), Mighty Quinn (Manfred Mann), Jumping Jack Flash (Rolling Stones), Congratulations (Cliff Richard), Lady Madonna (Beatles), I Gotta Get a Message to You (Bee Gees), Legend of Xanadu (Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich), Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde (Georgie Fame), With a Little Help From my Friends (Joe Cocker), A Man Without Love (Engelbert Humperdinck), Delilah (Tom Jones), Son of Hickory Holler's Tramp (O.C.Smith), Build Me Up Buttercup (Foundations), Little Arrows (Leapy Lee), This Guy's in Love With You (Herb Alpert), If I Only Had Time (John Rowles).

February ® The year began in bright sunshine as opposed to last year.

Teachers assembled on the 5th to prepare for the year.

Headmaster - J B Lloyd SJC Miss E Hatton Assistants - Mrs D Thompson, Mrs M Bogie, Mr P Dunn PA Mrs H Wilmott (Ex United Kingdom) ® School commenced on the 6th with a roll of 190. ® Mrs Wilmott lasted a week and a half before it was known that she was not suited to the work, and she resigned from teaching.

March ® Miss Frances Courtney began work in the place of Mrs Courtney. ® A visit to Huntly by the Governor General Sir Arthur Porritt. The children assembled in the Memorial Hall. He responded by giving the traditional holiday.

May ® Miss Hutton, the school’s first SJC (Supervisor of Junior Classes), was farewelled. She had made quite an impact on the school and the children. Her position was taken by Mrs Stanworth from the Huntly Primary School.

July ® Don Clarke, All Black rugby player, spent the afternoon coaching and in giving a most worthwhile account of his travels. ® Mrs Peterson began in a relieving capacity in the place of Mrs Stanworth, who is in hospital.

August ® Children from Maihihi school were to have paid a return visit but an epidemic of measles in their district put paid to the trip. ® The school continued with an itinerary of visits to Weavers Open Cast Coal Mine, to the Huntly Brick

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Works and to the Meremere coal-fired power station ® Mr Nash resigned from the cleaners position. A large number of applicants for the vacancy saw Mr Alan Hedley appointed.

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® Final Awards were: Jeffrey Hiriaki (Sports award), Louis Slee (Most Consistent Worker in Form 2), Donald Bogie (Dux).

September ® Mr Wilson, newly appointed school inspector to the district, made an unscheduled visit.

October ® The Flower Show was duly staged and was a great success. The idea of getting the children to arrange their exhibits at school was a good one as it meant they did all the work themselves and the competition becomes fairer.

November ® A series of four evenings to aid parent’s understanding of the new maths was begun. Mrs Bogie began with an explanation of ‘sets’. An excellent attendance of more than 30 parents took part enthusiastically.

December ® The infants had their day when they hosted parents at a 11am activity programme. The parents, mainly mothers, then took the children to the Huntly West playground and had lunch and games with them. They returned to the school when swimming lessons were taken. ® The annual concert and break-up party was held in the Huntly Primary School assembly hall. The hall, which seats 500, was overflowing and the concert had its usual charm, mainly centred on things which did not go according to plan. ® The windup speakers were Mr Holland (committee), Mr Gill (PTA), Donald Bogie (children) and the Head Teacher.

Kimihia School site (shaded).

1968 Standards 3 and 4 Rear: Pat Dunn, ______________, George Perry, ______________, Steven Dunstan, Brent Fletcher, Murray Patterson, Michael Gill, Aiden Cowley, Euan Nicholson, ______________, Dean Carroll.

Middle: Geoff Thompson, Paul Hunt, ______________, Bronwyn Jones, Valmay Dally, Linda Tilson, Elizabeth Stanich, Sally Lloyd, Susan Parkinson, ______________, Kevin Castle, Robert Thompson, Front: Corrine Miller, Janice Stirling,Mura Hiriaki, Tania Hiriaki, Sandra Rakels, Debbie Holland, Catherine Kendrick, Pamela Watene, Raewyn Fransham, ______________.

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1968 New Entrants Rear: Lawrence Castle, Glen Holland, Kevin Johnston, Bruce Horrox, Michael Perry, Kevin Wallace, David Tilson, Simon White, Harry Dixon, ______________, Grant Nash.

Middle: Grant Nicholson, John Thompson, Karl Plas, Grant Daly.

Seated: Tony Ralph, Wayne Ashby, Linda Matherson, Lorraine Manaia, Karen Hartis, Vivienne Gerrand, Leanne Holland, Julie Dobson, Helen Giles, Lyle Ashby, Warren Miller.

1968 Standard 1 Rear: Dorothy Thompson, Roger Tinney, Kevin Holland, Clive Dixon, ______________, Graeme Parkinson, Bruce McCormack, Stephen Slee, Michael Burdes, ______________, ______________, ______________, Middle: ___________, Chris Kendrick, _____________, ______________, Anne Challinor, Girl Turner, Andrea Gerrand, Jimmy Nash, Ernest Darke, J_______Giles, Kevin Stirling.

Seated: Susan Stanich, _____________, _____________, Carol Brunner, Sally Lloyd, Andrea Stanich, Patricia Jones, Suzanne Dunstan, _____________, ______________ .

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1968 Forms 1 and 2 Rear: John Lloyd, Billy Jones, ______________, ______________, ______________, ______________, ______________, ______________, ______________, Phillip Giles.

Middle: Murray Thompson, ______________, ______________, ______________, ______________, Euan Nicholson, _________Ashby, Ian Bogie, Seated: Kalua Ashby, Suzanne Gill, Jennifer Webb, Sharon Castle, ______________, ______________, Carol Patterson, ______________, Joanne Rakels, Adrianne Ridley .

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1969 1969 Events þ Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin walk on the moon. þ Glenbrook steel mill begins production. þ Four new lanes added on to the Auckland Harbour Bridge (Nippon Clip-ons).

ENROLMENTS 1969 AINSWORTH, Karen............................ February ALLEN, Gregory Dale........................... February DUNSTAN, Joseph Arthur.................... February KATIPA, Steven John ........................... February PLAS, Richard William ......................... February RETI, Susan Amelia Angela .................. February SOOLE, Brenda Michelle...................... February SYME, Andrea ...................................... February TAUROA, Ron Rangiwhare .................. February TURTON, Robyn Lee............................ February WOODS, Ruth Marian .......................... February DARKE, Carol Vivien ............................... March HUNT, Craig Thomas................................ March ROSS, Daren Colin.................................... March SLEE, Kevin Paul ...................................... March GREEN, Terrence Dale John....................... April McDONALD, Phillip John .......................... April RANGI, Warren Wiremu Rangiorua ........... April ANDREWS, Acushla Raewyn...................... June JANSEN, Marinus Robert ............................ June SHARP, Lee-Ann ......................................... June SHARP, Tony Rex........................................ June UNU, Kingi Teariki ...................................... June UNU, Matatua............................................... June DOBSON, Stuart Andrew....................September HARPER, Cheryl jean .........................September MANAIA, Michael Thomas ....................October WATENE, Elaine Harriet ........................October HOETA, Tania Maxine........................ November JANSEN, Marinus Robert ................... November POWELL, Ernest Robert ..................... November ANDREWS, Acushla Raewyn............. December HIRIAKI, Joseph Wiari ....................... December TISCHENDORF, Yasmin Gertrud ...... December Popular Songs of 1969.

1 Sugar Sugar (Archies), 2 Get Back (Beatles with Billy Preston), 3 Honky Tonk Woman (Rolling Stones), 4 Where Do You Go To My Lovely (Peter Sarstedt), 5 I Heard It Through The Grapevine (Marvin Gaye), 6 Bad Moon Rising (Creedence Clearwater Revival), 7 The Ballad of John and Yoko (Beatles), 8 In The Year 2525 (Zager and Evans), 9 Ob-La-De Ob-La-Da (Marmalade), 10 Something in The Air (Thunderclap Newman), 11 Two Little Boys (Rolf Harris), 12 Albatross (Fleetwood Mac), 13 I'll Never Fall in Love Again (Bobby Gentry), 14 The Israelites (Desmond Dekker and the Aces), 15 Goodbye (Mary Hopkin), 16 Ruby Don't Take Your Love to Town (Kenny Rogers and the First Edition),

Hepatitis Outbreak at Kimihia School The Kimihia School, near Huntly, may be forced to close due to a bad outbreak of infectious hepatitis.

A large number of the school’s roll of 204 has already been affected, together with a number of adults from the area.

Local residents claim the cause of the disease at Kimihia is a number of defective sewers serving several new homes near the school.

Huntly has its own sewerage scheme, but this area of Kimihia has not yet been connected.

The headmaster of Kimihia School, Mr J Lloyd, said today that reliable figures of the number of pupils affected could not be accurately assessed, but they were considerable.

Mr Lloyd said a health inspector was due to make an inspection of the area tomorrow, and he would ask the inspector if the school should be closed as a safeguard.

The outbreak at Kimihia is only one in the Waikato-King Country and he is concerned at the spread of the disease among school children there.

With support from the Taupo County Council, they intend pushing for hot-water hand-washing facilities in schools. And the South Auckland branch of the Parent Teacher Association recently formulated a remit on the subject to be presented at its national conference in Wellington in August.

The federation would take up the matter of hepatitis with the Government departments concerned., said a spokesman, Mr W A Rush.

But the general manager of the South Auckland Education Board, Mr K C M Cockerill, said in answer that the incidence of hepatitis in some schools could not be blamed on the lack of hot-water hand-washing facilities. He said the matter of hepatitis had been fully discussed with Dr Dawson, Hamilton District Medical Officer of Health.

The disease could be traced to any number of causes, said Mr Cockerill, but a circular had been sent to all teachers asking them to pay strict attention to children’s hand-washing.

Soap was supplied in all schools, and most had towels supplied either by individual children, or paper towels supplied by school committees.

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February ® The school opened with a full staff, the same as for 1968, with the exception that Miss Sheryl Reid replaced Miss Courtney who moved to Putaruru. ® The initial roll was 199. ® Mr L Palmer, Inspector for the area, visited. ® In glorious sunshine (unusual for a Kimihia function) the annual swimming sports was run in the Domain baths.

The improved standards of performance shown proved the value of having our own pool. Matai won the swimming competition.

April ® An interesting display and films from the BP oil company. ® A biennial householders’ meeting was held to elect a new school committee. Chairman M Gerrand, SecretaryTreasurer E Jones, Committee Mrs A Fletcher, Messrs T Hunt, R Gill, I Tapp and B Fransham. ® The Annual General Meeting of the PTA elected the following executive officers: R Forrest (Chairman) and Mrs R Gill (Secretary-Treasurer).

May ® The children ran their ‘Penny Arcade’ and cleared $27 in the hour. ® The second term started with a full staff but a dramatically decimated roll of pupils, due to a virulent outbreak of Hepatitis in the district. As this has been raging for some months now one wonders why the Health Department hasn’t taken some measure to isolate the source.

Other newspaper reports on the Hepatitis outbreak. . . .

Nine Pupils Sick Nine cases of infectious hepatitis had been officially notified by pupils attending Kimihia School, said the Hamilton medical officer of health, Dr J F Dawson, today.

But there were probably many more as some times the disease was not reported or medical assistance sought, he said.

A very favourable report was given by the health inspector who visited the school yesterday, said Dr Dawson. Hand-washing sanitation facilities were quite satisfactory.

The school had been built recently.

“Pockets of hepatitis are springing up all the time, and we can only stress again the importance of proper hand-washing and personal hygiene.”

He said the cause of the disease at Kimihia was not known.

The Kimihia School’s headmaster, Mr J Lloyd, consulted the South Auckland Education Board yesterday, as he feared the school might have to be closed to safeguard other pupils so far not affected. But he had no further comment to make on the situation today.

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Diseases spread in schools Huntly - Conditions existing in schools enabled diseases to spread rapidly and easily due to close confinement of pupils, the Huntly Borough Council was told last night.

In his report, the health inspector, Mr C M Turner, said no facilities for washing pupils’ hands with hot water was another factor.

His report also said that 23 pupils from Kimihia School were still affected by hepatitis and were absent from classes.

Mr Turner said he had visited the school and interviewed the headmaster, Mr J Lloyd.

The hepatitis outbreak there was only mild and not of epidemic proportions.

He said that during the past month infective hepatitis had been rife in the borough. Four cases had actually been reported.

“But it would appear that doctors in Huntly are not always notifying the Health Department of hepatitis, and consequently the extent of the outbreak cannot be ascertained.”

June ® The hepatitis crisis is still raging in the district and the matter has been highlighted in the newspapers and over the radio. The Health Department paid us a visit and spoke very highly of the standard of cleanliness and general attention being paid to hygiene in the school.

They are still not particularly interested in taking any positive action. In the meantime there is a steady stream of new cases.

July ® This year we varied the system of issuing reports in that they were sent home with the children first. The parents were then invited to a PTA meeting where they had the chance to interview teachers and discuss the children’s progress. This proved very successful with 70 parents attending. ® We are still having a steady stream of new cases of hepatitis. The Health Department has consoled us by predicting about 75% of the school eventually going down with the illness! ® A three-day inspection visit from Messrs Palmer, L Wilson and Holmes. The visit was to issue one yellow and two green reports on staff members. It involved a most thorough analysis of the school programme and its implementation.

August ® Forms 1 and 2 made an educational visit to Wellington per NZ Railways. The fare was $9.50 a head and the children received a full day of VIP treatment.

September ® Mrs Allen agreed to assist in the Std 3/4 area as the Board could not even supply a relieving teacher.

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1969 Std 3/4 Rear: Peter McWaters, Peter Giles, Steven Dunstan, Stephen Slee, Greg White.

4th Row: Bill Pollock, Kevin Castle, Paul White [Vitasovich], Brett Holland, Clive Dixon, George Pere.

3rd Row: Mark Tilson, Geoff Thomson, Paul Hunt, Murray Patterson, Euan Nicholson, Peter Dunstan, Jackie Rakels.

2nd Row: Kevin Hart, __________, Mura Hiriaki, Deborah Challinor, Janice Stirling, Natalie Watene, Glenda Webb, Carol White.

Seated: Donna Dally, _________Giles, Sharlene Rutene, Shelaine Ashby, Pamela Kendrick, Heather Chandler, ______________, Nikki Ryburn, Ngaire Darke.

October ® The annual flower show was held in spite of unfavourable weather. Each room arranged its own display. ® School inspection visit from L Palmer.

November ® J Lloyd attended a two-day course on mathematics. ® A Sunday working bee prepared a new fence and a concrete extension around the baths. ® Mr Ian Tapp and Tom Johnston completed the concrete around the baths two days later. The fence was completed and a ‘Christmas neck-trim’ was given to the school grounds.

December ® The school break-up was held in the Huntly Primary School assembly hall with a very large attendance of parents. ® The programme for the break-up was . . . .

Children’s Items Speeches Mr Gerrand Mr Forrest Headmaster Traffic Awards Room 2 Murray White, Kevin Johnston, Leanne Holland, Julie Dobson, Karen Hartis, Glenn Nicholson.

Room 3 Jackie Forrest, Anne Pere,

Jan Tapp, Anne Hamilton, Susan Stanich, Karl Plas, Julie Stirling, Murray Chandler, Gillian Ainsworth, Karen Fletcher, Andrea Ralph, Fiona Giles.

Room 4 (Std 2)- Anne Challinor, Paul Forrest, Russell White, Patricia Jones, Peter Fletcher, Nan Turner.

Room 4 (Std 3)- Philip Tilson, Brenda Scott, Bernice Fredrickson.

Room 6 (Std 3)- Glenda Webb, Heather Chandler, Mark Nicholson, Donna Dally, Pamela Kendrick.

Room 6 (Std 4)- Geoffrey Thomson, Deborah Challinor, Paul Hunt, Greg White.

Sports Award - Paula Thompson Most Progress Form 2 Jennifer Webb Room 5 Adrienne Ridley, Joanne Rakels, Ian Bogie, Suzanne Gill, Murray Thomson, Sandra Rakels, Raewyn Fransham, Sally Lloyd, Elizabeth Stanich, Susan Parkinson.

Dux Award Runners-up Joanne Rakels & Suzanne Gill Dux Award - Ian Bogie

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1969 Std 4 Rear: Alex Bass , David Tilson, Harry Dixon, Ricky Hiriaki, ______________ , Michael Perry, John Thomson, ______________.

3rd Row: Steven Fransham, Murray Slater, Robert Manaia, Stephen Slee, Boy Turner, Chris Kendrick, Harold Thompson, Mark Hunt, Kevin Johnson, Teacher Marion Bogie.

2nd Row: Julie Dobson, ______________ , Andrea Ralph, ______________ , Cheryl Harper, Linda Gatehouse, Denise Smith, Carolyn Stirling.

Seated: ______________, Karen Fletcher (or Leanne Leech), Dianne Wallace, Jillian Ainsworth, Karen Hartis, Vivienne Gerrand, Leanne Holland, ______________ .

1969 Stds 1 & 2 Rear: Carl Taipari, Grant Nash, David Tilson, Michael Perry, Simon Burdes, Gary Rakels, John Thomson, Bruce Horrox, Stephen Forrest.

Middle: ______________, Glenn Holland, _______Nicholson, Harold Thompson, Kevin Wallace, Kevin Johnstone, ______________, Teacher Sheryl Reid.

Seated: ______________, Leanne Holland, Helen Giles, Vivienne Gerrand, Linda McPherson, Karen Hartis, Anne Campbell.

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1969 FORMS 1 & 2 Rear: Stephen Dunstan, Stephen Slee, Murray Patterson, Chris Woodcock, Billy Pollock, Paul White, Peter Giles.

4th Row: George Pere, Geoff Thomson, Brett Holland, Peter Gatehouse, Kevin Castle, ___________, Paul Hunt, Peter Patterson.

3rd Row: Principal Bruce Seaton, Martin McIlroy, Peter Dunstan, Phillip Tilson, Jimmy Carter, John Harper, Rikki Herbert, John (Jacky) Rakels, Lindsay Page, Bruce Stirling.

2nd Row: Patricia Darke, Donna Dally, Linda Watene, Sheryl Smith, Deborah Challenor, Shirley McIlroy, Pam Kendrick, Brenda Scott.

Seated: Tania Hiriaki, Jennifer Slater, Niki Ryburn, Glenda Webb, Catherine Giles, Bernice Fredrickson, Heather Seaton, Janice Stirling, Wendy Watene.

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1970 1970 Events 1 Swiss women receive the vote.

2 Unmanned Soviet spacecraft lands on Venus.

3 Kaimai tunnel cave-in; 4 killed, 11 rescued.

ENROLMENTS 1970 DALEY, Carolyn Anne.......................... February DALEY, Charles .................................... February DALEY, Ralda Desiree.......................... February DAVID, Lani May ................................. February GATEHOUSE, Lynda Anne .................. February GATEHOUSE, Peter Clifford................ February HARPER, Kenneth John ........................ February LENNOX, Jeanette Helen...................... February PERE, Jaqueline..................................... February RUTENE, Hiki Joseph........................... February RUTENE, Shaun Daniel ........................ February RUTENE, Wallace Dunlop.................... February STEIGENBURGER, James ................... February STEWART, Karen Ann ......................... February WALLACE, David Norman................... February TARI, Kay Elizabeth.................................. March TARI, Lianne Joy....................................... March CARTER, Alene Myrtle............................... April CARTER, Denise May................................. April CARTER, James Robey............................... April RALPH, James David .................................. April CAMPBELL, Martin David.......................... May McILROY, Vicky Joy ................................... May McPHERSON, Vivienne Joy ........................ May PLAS, Stephen John...................................... May SMITH, Denise Adrienne ............................. May SMITH, Russell Alan.................................... May SMITH, Sherryl Dawn .................................. May TAPP, Roger................................................. May CLOUT, Bryan James................................... June BELL, Catherine Janet ...................................July BURDES, Timothy ................................... August REA, Shelley Therese ............................... August ALLEN, Mark William ........................September CROW, Stephen Robert .......................September DIXON, Cherie ....................................September HUNT, Wendy Marie ..........................September LEITCH, Megan Beth..........................September LEITCH, Tracy Ann ............................September TURTON, Mark Roger ........................September McDONALD, Helen Barbara ..................October MURROW, Bernadette Joy .....................October TAIPARI, Lynette Tewaru.......................October PERRY, Sandra Louise........................November DALLY, Nigel Alexander.................... December DAVID, John Turiaki .......................... December RUTENE, Sharlene Anne .................... December SOOLE, Rhonda Carol......................... December Popular songs of 1970 1 In The Summertime (Mungo Jerry), 2 The Wonder of You (Elvis Presley), 3 Band of Gold (Fredi Payne), 4 Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes (Edison Lighthouse),

I Hear You Knockin' (Dave Edmunds), Two little Boys (Rolf Harris), Bridge Over Troubled Water (Simon and Garfunkel), Wand'rin' Star (Lee Marvin), Tears of a Clown (Smokey Robinson and the Miracles), Yellow River (Christie), All Right Now (Free), Ruby Don't Take Your Love to Town (Kenny Rogers and the First Edition), 13 Lola (Kinks), Leavin' on a Jet Plane (Peter, Paul and Mary), 14 Let It Be (Beatles),

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February ® The school opened with the following staff: J Lloyd (Headmaster), Mrs J Stanworth (SJC), Mrs Bogie, Mrs Thornton, Mr P Thompson and Miss L Swart (Year 1). ® The school swimming sports was held in the municipal pool with the events being run in classes using events developed in class instruction. Mr Huck Winton demonstrated the development of a good relaxed freearm stroke. ® Infant swimming sports held in the school beginners’ pool in front of a good crowd.

March ® Mr L F Palmer, school inspector, made a contact visit. ® J Lloyd attended an inservice science course at the Huntly Primary School. ® Mrs J Chadwick of Pukekapia relieved in Forms 1 and 2.

May ® A ‘Penny Arcade’ was held to raise funds for a school contribution towards fixed equipment for play in the school grounds. In spite of it raining until 10:30 $29.48 was raised through good pupil and parent support. ® Presentation of “Arabesque” by the Children’s Art Theatre.

June ® Visit to Pukemiro for inter-school rugby and basketball.

July ® Two working bees were held to erect the climbing equipment in the school grounds. The school was indebted to the Lions Club for their part in fabricating and erecting the frames and for contributing $20 to the cost of it. ® On the 29th the playground became fully operational when Mr Ron Collins, representing the Lions Club, fixed the climbing ropes. An element of risk was acknowledged in the apparatus and there are bound to be accidents but this factor itself is significant as children in the normal course of development must learn by experience what is safe and what is possible.

August ® Headmaster J Lloyd received notice of transfer to Balmoral school in Tokoroa. He had served 11 terms

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September ® A.Chicholls took over as relieving Head Teacher for the last term. ® Mr Simeon, Schools Traffic Officer, visited to take the Standards classes. ® Mr Les Palmer, inspector, visited the school; Miss Murphy, Dental School Inspector, visited the clinic. ® Received 380 new books from the Country Library Service.

October ® Miss Deare, hearing specialist, came to see two pupils on referral. ® Mr Reid of the Hamilton Teachers College visited the school to see two of the College students. ® Miss McPhee, Traffic Officer, visited the junior classes.

November ® The school choir spent the morning at Huntly College.

Rooms 3 to 6 went over to hear the final rehearsal for that evenings Music Festival. ® Afternoon tea at the girls’ Cookery class attended by all mothers and Head Teacher. ® Head Teacher started 12 days leave without salary and was replaced by Mr W Taylor of Hamilton. ® Combined Schools’ Athletics & Tabloid Sports. All Std 3 to Form 2 pupils participated along with several younger pupils chosen for sprint events. ® Mr Bogie of Huntly College came to conduct entrance tests with the Form 2 pupils. ® Mr Bell produced a puppet show for the whole school.

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® Mrs Sherrard came to relieve for three days in place of Mr Taylor who was involved in an accident when his car was badly damaged. ® The school was closed on the 30th for a Committee holiday.

December ® A Chicholls returned to duty after the leave of absence. ® Miss Jones, Speech Therapist, visited to test children nominated for treatment by the teachers. ® School Flower Show held with all rooms participating. ® Miss Smart was given the afternoon of the 4th off to receive her Teacher’s Certificate in Hamilton. ® School photos taken at the request of the Committee. ® School Athletic Sports held on the bottom ground at 1pm on the 9th. ® An evening organised by Form 2 held in rooms 5 and 6.

Children from Huntly Convent (Forms 1 and 2) were also invited. The children’s committee received credit for a well-run function. ® End-of-year function held at the Huntly Primary School Hall with a capacity crowd. Chief prizewinners were: School Dux - Raewyn Fransham Runner-up - Elizabeth Stanich Best Improvement Form 2 - Susan Parkinson & Bernard Ridley School Sportsman for 1970 - Bernard Ridley ® On the last day (16th) the incoming headmaster, Mr B Seaton, was present.

1970 Stds 1 & 2 Rear: ______________, ______________, ______________.

4th Row: Jeffrey Giles, Robert Manaia, Peter Slee, Mark Hunt, Bruce Horrox, Lex Reid.

3rd Row: ______________, ______________, ______________, ______________, Peter Slee, Terry Drayton, Stephen Forrest.

2nd Row: Carolyn Shirley, Denise Tinney, Jackie Forrest, Susan Stanich, Jan Tapp, Andrew Scott, ________Reid, Ricky Hiriaki.

Front: Anne Pere, Denise Carter, Fiona Giles, Diane Wallace, Susan Dunstan, Janice Stirling, ______________, Karen Fletcher, Karen Ainsworth .

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1970 Standards 3 & 4 Rear: Bruce McCormack, ______________, Peter Patterson, David Tilson, Peter Hart.

4th Row: Graeme Parkinson, Michael Burdes, Jimmy Nash, Paul Forrest, Peter Fletcher, Ernest Darke.

3rd Row: Barry Dixon, Kevin Holland, Roger Tinney, Kevin Stirling, Bruce Stirling, Kevin Hart, Tony Hiriaki, Marion Bogie.

2nd Row: Catherine Giles, Sherylee Miller, Dale McDonald, Agnes Pollock, Jan-Maree Cowley, Nan Unu, Carol Brungar, Lynley Holland.

Front: Patricia Jones, Anne Challinor, Sandra Rakels, Andrea Gerrand, Mary Lloyd, Andrea Stannich, Brenda Scott, Bernice Fredrickson, Jennifer Slater.

1970 New Entrants Rear: Craig Hunt, Darren Ross, ______________, Peter Slee, L________Ashby, W________Ashby.

3rd Row: Richard Plas, Greg Allen, ______________, Reid Taipari, Joseph Dunstan, ______________.

2nd Row: ______________, Carmel Rea, ______________, Robyn Turton, Fiona Bell, Lawrence Castles.

Front: Karen Ainsworth, ______________, Susan Reti, ______________, Jenny Manaia, Tracey Thompson, Helen Giles.

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1970 Forms 1 & 2 Rear: Anton Brown, Clive Ashby, Michael Gill, Ross Grut, Peter Hart, ______________, Norman Giles.

4th Row: Dean Carroll, Murray Thomson, John McWatters, Ian Bogie, Euan Nicholson, Stewart Giles, Bernard Ridley, Brent Fletcher.

3rd Row: Phillip Giles, Raewyn Fransham, Tania Hiriaki, Linda Watene, Polly Pere, Kallua Ashby, Dale McDonald, Robert Thompson, Bill Jones.

2nd Row: Debbie Holland, Sally Lloyd, Bronwyn Jones, Linda Tilson, Susan Parkinson, Sandra Rakels, Adrienne Ridley, _________.

Front: Catherine Kendrick , ___________, Carol Patterson, Elizabeth Stanich, Joanne Rakels, Rona Tauroa, ___________, Paula Thompson, Valmay Dally.

Original Kimihia School site (1996 photo).

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1971 1971 Events þ Three Soviet astronauts die in space. þ Microprocessor invented in USA. þ Bluff aluminium smelter opens þ NZ bass singer Inia Te Wiata dies.

ENROLMENTS 1971 DALEY, Carolyn Anne.......................... February DALEY, Ralda Desiree.......................... February DUNN, John Duncan ............................. February DUNN, Thomas Stuart........................... February PAGE, Brendon Arthur.......................... February PAGE, Brioni Mary ............................... February PAGE, Lindsay William ........................ February RENDALL, Jeffrey James ..................... February RETI, Susan Amelia Angela .................. February SEATON, Heather Lynne ...................... February SEATON, Jillian Ruth ........................... February TARI, Marita, Angela ............................ February TISCHENDORF, Giselle Ruth .............. February PRIESTLEY, Shane Gregory Maule.......... March SAUNDERS, Brenda Kim ......................... March CLOUT, Graeme Paul.................................. April DALEY, Suzanne......................................... April HORROX, Carolyn Jean .............................. April JOHNSTON, Neil Alexander....................... April LITTLEJOHN, Laura Jean .......................... April PATRICK, Andrew John ............................. April PERE, Lynnette............................................ April POWELL, Allen John .................................. April WILSON, Denise Marie............................... April ALLEN, Dianne Lee ......................................July GLASS, Wendy Elizabeth..............................July McILROY, Karen Maria................................July McILROY, Martin James...............................July McILROY, Monica Faye ...............................July McILROY, Shirley.........................................July LITTLEJOHN, Rachael Ann .................... August ADAMSON, Dianne Pamela E. ...........September ARMISHAW, Jeremy Charles .............September GOSS, Kelly Maree .............................September GOSS, Shane Michael..........................September GREEN, Rochelle Janette ....................September HERBERT, Kerry Donald ...................September HERBERT, Ricky Paul........................September MEECH, Stephen Tom ........................September RETI, Stephen......................................September THOMSON, Darren Carle ...................September AINSCOUGH, Brett ................................October GILES, Susan maree ................................October McILROY, Shane Colin...........................October McIVER, Kim Marie ...............................October SAUNDERS, Shane Northey ...................October WOODCOCK, Christopher Cecil ............October Music of '71 1 Hot Love (T Rex), 2 Maggie May (Rod Stewart), 3 Knock Three Times (Dawn), 4 Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep (Middle of the Road), 5 My Sweet Lord (George Harrison),

6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17

Get It On (T Rex), Grandad (Clive Dunn), Ernie - The Fastest Milkman in the West (Benny Hill), I Hear You Knockin' (Dave Edmunds), Never Ending Song of Love (New Seekers), Pushbike Song (Mixtures), Jeepster (T Rex), Another Day (Paul McCartney), I Did What I Did For Maria (Tony Christie), Tweedle Dee Tweedle Dum (Middle of the Road), Till (Tom Jones), Banner Man (Blue Mink).

February ® Staff arrived to prepare for the year.

N B Seaton, Headmaster (ex-Ohinewai); Mrs J Stanwick, SJC; Mrs M Bogie; Mrs D Thompson; Mr P Thompson; Miss M Mcleod, Year 1 (Hamilton); Mrs V Gerrand, Clerical Assistant. ® An opening roll of 203 with large classes in the middle and upper school necessitating extra furniture. This number grew with eleven new enrolments on the opening day. ® Mrs Jones (3 Russell Road) donated a set of NZ Encyclopaedias to the library. ® Float Boards purchased for the swimming pool.

March ® Two visiting ministers began religious instruction in rooms 5 and 6 with Committee approval. ® Swimming sports hosted a large crowd of parents at the town baths. School House teams competed for points with the Kowhai House Captains Rangi Pere and Janice Stirling collecting the cup for their House. Matai was runner-up. Paul Hunt was the boys champion and Jennifer Slater the girls.

Championship Results: Backstroke Boys - Geoff Thomson 1st, Paul Hunt 2nd, Peter Giles 3rd.

Backstroke Girls - Jennifer Slater 1st, Sheryl Smith 2nd, Lynley Holland 3rd.

Breaststroke Boys - Murray Patterson 1st, Peter Giles 2nd, Paul Hunt 3rd.

Breaststroke Girls - Mura Hiriaki 1st, Jennifer Slater 2nd, Shelaine Ashby 3rd.

Overarm Boys Paul Hunt 1st, Stephen Dunstan 2nd, Geoff Thomson 3rd.

Overarm Girls Jennifer Slater 1st, Janice Stirling 2nd, Sheryl Smith 3rd.

33 1/3 Results: 9 Years Boys Mark Hunt 1st, Graeme Syme 2nd.

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Susan Stanich 1st, Jillian Seaton 2nd, Gillian Ainsworth 3rd.

10 Years Boys Jimmy Nash 1st, Barry Dixon 2nd, Chris kendrick 3rd.

10 Years Girls Lynley Holland 1st, Andrea Stanich 2nd, Gaylene Johnston 3rd.

11 Years Boys Jacky Rakels 1st, Peter McWatter 2nd, Peter Paterson 3rd.

11 Years Girls Jennifer Slater 1st, Heather Seaton 2nd, Wendy Watene 3rd.

12 Years Boys Paul Hunt 1st, Geoffrey Thomson 2nd, Peter Giles 3rd.

12 Years Girls Janice Stirling 1st, Sheryl Smith 2nd, Mura Hiriaki 3rd.

13 Years Boys Stephen Dunstan 1st, Rangi Pere 2nd, Stephen Slee 3rd.

House Relay Kowhai 1st, Totara 2nd, Rimu 3rd. ® A school team was entered in the Inter-School swimming sports. Lynley Holland won her age final (1 length) while Murray Paterson took second place in the open backstroke final.

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April ® Thirty parents attended the Biennial School Committee elections where 13 candidates offered themselves for the 9 positions. Resulrs were Chairman Mr T Hunt, Secretary Mr E Jones, Mrs A Fletcher, Mr B Fransham, Mr M Gerrand, Mr R Gill, Mr R Forrest, Mr I Tapp and Mr P Turton. ® The PTA Executive elections saw the following results: President Mr B McFarlane, Secretary Mrs Gatehouse, Mrs Challinor, Mrs Perry, Mrs Tapp and Mr McDonald. ® The Annual Inter-School Cross Country was held at Huntly West resulting in some 15 Kimihia placings.

June ® Three Training College students began a three-week section. ® The Head Teacher attended a Social Studies Curriculum Planning Seminar at Lopdell House (Titirangi).

July ® The Children’s Art Theatre Group stage a performance for the whole school. ® A two-day period of interviews with parents - 94% attended. ® Ohinewai visited for a sports afternoon.

August ® Standard 2 to Form 2 pupils visited the Gemini 12 space craft. ® A Winter Sports Day of 800 district pupils was joined by Std 3 upwards from Kimihia.

1971 Standards 1 and 2 Rear: John Thomson, Harold Thompson, ______________.

3rd Row: ______________, Harry Dixon, David Tilson, Michael Perry, ______________, ______________.

2nd Row: Kevin Johnston, Karen Fletcher, _______Ainsworth, Lynley Holland, Karen Hartis, ______________, Bruce Horrox.

Front: Cheryl Harper, ___________, Denise Smith, Andrea Ralph, Fiona Giles, ___________, ___________, Carolyn Stirling.

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1971 Standards 3 and 4 Rear: Peter Fletcher, Karl Plas, ______________, ______________, Boy Turner, Peter Slee.

4th Row: Kevin Stirling, Jimmy Nash, Karl Taipari, Mark Hunt, Heke Rutene, Robert Manaia, Kevin Holland.

3rd Row: Marion Bogie, Anne Pere, Andrew Scott, Ricki Hiriaki, David Horrocks, John Fredericks, Chris Kendrick, Murray Slater, Kevin Robinson.

2nd Row: ___________, Jan Tapp, Dale McDonald, Agnes Pollock, Carole Brungar, ___________, Anne Hamilton, Denise Carter.

Front: Julie Stirling, ___________, Susan Stanich, Lynley Rogers, Patricia Jones, ___________, Jackie Forrest, Anne Challinor.

September ® Three Training College students began a 7-week teaching section. ® The Head Teacher lectured a Port Waikato Teachers Course on school camping. ® A parents meeting was held concerning the extension of the taxi sevice and decided that six parents would share the cost of the extra mileage to include inelligible children.

October ® Kimihia took part in the Music Festival with massed and individual items. ® $125 raised for school funds at a PTA shop day in Huntly. ® Head Teacher attended an Inservice Health Course.

November ® Instruction on rescue breathing was demonstrated at a PTA evening. ® Kimihia convened the Primary Schools Art & Craft Exhibition. ® Teams attended the District Tabloid Sports Day.

December ® Huntly College Principal came to interview prospective Form 3 pupils and their parents. ® $28 raised in a Penny Arcade activity by pupils. ® A Family Day was held on the 14th with a Flower Show, athletics, swimming, games and refreshments.

Many families held picnic teas on the grounds with barbeques. At 6:30pm the finals of the school arts competition were performed followed by official speeches and closure at 8:30pm. ® School upgraded to V.B.

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1971 Form 1 Rear: Jimmy Nash, Ross Grut, Steven Fransham, Bruce MacCormack, ______________, Paul Stirling.

4th Row: Clive Dixon, John Dunn, Kevin Holland, Roger Tinney, ______________, Bruce Stirling, Peter Fletcher, Shaun Tiananga.

3rd Row: Ernest Darke, Kevin Stirling, Janice Stirling, Anne Pere, Anne Hamilton, Susan Stanich, Andrew Scott, Scott __________, Peter Thompson.

2nd Row: Andrea Gerrand, Karen McIlroy, Denise Carter, Anne Challinor, Carol Brungar, Jan Tapp, Patricia Jones, Lynley Holland.

Front: Dale McDonald, Andrea Stanich, Carol White, Nan Turner, Agnes Pollock, __________ Goss, Jackie Forrest, Brioni Page, _______________.

The Main Trunk Railway line just across State Highway One from the Kimihia Cemetary showing the branch line to Kimihia.

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1972 1972 Events þ Palestinian terrorists kill 11 Israelis at Munich Olympic games with international tv coverage þ Watergate scandal exposed. þ USA sends last manned rocket to the moon.

ENROLMENTS 1972 DIXON, Monica Ann............................. February HILL, Philip John .................................. February BAXTER, Tracie Sharon ........................... March CROW, Susan Helen.................................. March LEITCH, Geoffrey Donald ........................ March RENDALL, Gary Duncan .......................... March McPHERSON, David Andrew..................... April STIRLING, Kim Louise................................ June POWELL, Helena Marie................................July WEST, Colin Neil ..........................................July McDONALD, Kevan Anthony.................. August BATE, Lisa Ann.................................. September DAVID, Lani May .............................. September HIRIAKI, Simon Patrick..................... September PERE, Jason........................................ September REA, Jaqueline Mary .......................... September BENNETT, Gordon William ...................October LENNOX, Richard James ........................October McIVOR, Mark Kenneth..........................October BENNETT, Effie Jennean....................November BENNETT, Kitrina Rosalie .................November RUTENE, Selwyn Munga....................November TISCHENDORF, Eugene Rudolph......November WATENE, Elizabeth Bronwyn ............November REED, Tania Elizabeth ........................ December What were we singing in '72?

1 Without You (Nilsson), 2 Amazing Grace (The Pipes and Drums and Military Band of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards), 3 Puppy Love (Donny Osmond), 4 My Ding-a-Ling (Chuck Beny), 5 Mouldy Old Dough (Lieutenant Pigeon), 6 I'd Like to Teach The World to Sing (New Seekers), 7 Metal Guru (TRex), 8 Son of My Father (Chickory Tip), 9 School's Out (Alice Cooper), 10 Mama Weer All Crazee Now (Slade), 11 Telegram Sam (T.Rex), 12 Vincent (Don McLean), 13 How Can 1 Be Sure (David Cassidy), 14 Clair (Gilbert O'Sullivan), 15 Long Haired Lover From Liverpool (Little Jimmy Osmond), 16 You Wear it Well (Rod Stewart), 17 Ernie - the Fastest Milkman in the West (Benny Hill), 18 American Pie (Don McLean), 19 Sylvia's Mother (Dr Hook and the Medicine Show), 20 Cherish (David Cassidy), 21 Rocket Man (Elton John), 22 Alone Again - Naturally (Gilbert O'Sullivan), 23 A Horse With No Name (America), 24 Breaking up is Hard to do (Partridge Family), 25 Saturday Night at the Movies (Drifters).

February ® Staff that started the year were: Mr B Seaton (Head Teacher), Mrs J Stanworth (SJC), Mrs M Bogie, Miss P Kirkwood (ex Christchurch), Mrs H Gregory (ex Huntly West) and Mrs H Fyers (long term reliever to replace the Year 1 teacher who withdrew on the 1st of February). ® 196 pupils started the year and plumbing repairs were carried out on the toilets. ® Form 1 and 2 pupils attended a 10-day camp at the Port Waikato Outdoor Education Centre. Mr Gregory along with five local helpers (Misses P Fransham, G Beverland, Messrs M Climo, G Slee, B Cowley) served as the teaching staff while Mesdames C Hamilton, B White, V Dally, S Fransham, L Slater and L Scott acted as cooks. ® Junior scwimming sports held.

March ® Senior swimming sports held at the Municipal pool. ® Mrs Bogie attended a three-week Social Studies Course in Hamilton with Mrs Lovell (Taupiri) acted as reliever. ® A team was entered in the Inter-School Swimming Sports with Jan-Marie Cowley the only place winner. ® Pupils presented a follow-up demonstration and display evening to parents of camp life. Displays and live performances showed camp life. ® The mole ploughing/draining of the playing fields was completed and some 60 yards of filling spread. ® Mrs Stanworth and Mr Gregory attended Science Inservice Courses.

April ® Traffic instruction and bicycle safety check by Schools Instructor Mr R E (Ward) Fisher. ® Mr B Seaton attended a Language Inservice Course. ® AGM of the PTA was held. Mr D Rea elected President, Mrs L Scott Secretary with a committee of the Head teacher, Mesdames Challinor, Lennox, Perry, Tapp and Hunt. ® A joint meeting of the School Committee and the staff discussed the future of awards in the school. As a result it was planned to design a suitable merit certificate which may be awarded as a reward for excellence in many fields.

June ® Mr J Marshall, Senior Advisor in Physical Education, called and discussed filter problems at the school swimming pool. ® Mrs Leitch, Kimihia Road, began duties as a volunteer reading teacher. Children with remedial problems receive attention on a roster system.

July ® Miss Kirkwood attended a two-day Maori inservice Course. ® Te Kauwhata College teams visited to play rugby and netball. ® 96% of parents attended interviews.

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August ® Conservation Exhibition held in Huntly Primary School Hall. Std 3 upward attended. ® September 1972 ® PTA games evening attended by 46 participants. ® School Inspection by Messrs L Palmer, E Henry, M Robbins and D Holmes over two days.

October ® Huntly College Principal visited to enroll Form 2 pupils. ® Head Teacher B Seaton moved into a rented College house while the school house was being shifted. ® The school library recatalogued onto the Dewey system.

Miss Gastin from the National Country Library Service lead a team of six local ladies in the complete reorganisation of the books. ® Teams entered in the Waikato Gymnastic Competition.

The girls team won the C Grade and Jan Tapp won awards for the best performance. ® The school residence was moved from the old school site to the new section on 46A Russell Road. There was very little damage.

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® New maths was introduced to parents at an evening (43 attended). All staff took part, each covering a separate section of the syllabus.

November ® Athletics and Tabloid field-day held on huntly domain where over 1000 pupils Std 3 and upwards attended. ® Kimihia took part in solo and mixed items at the Huntly Music Festival.

December ® Principal moved back into residence after the resiting and the redecorating of the interior, but no grounds work done. ® The end-of-year function had to be cancelled due to rain. However an evening programme of items and awards were presented in the Huntly Primary School Hall. All Form 2 leavers were presented with Leaving Certificates by the Committee.

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1973 ENROLMENTS 1973 ADAMSON, Maree Doreen Jane........... February BRANDT, Noeline Jane......................... February CHALLINOR, David Mark ................... February DAVID, Katrina May............................. February DIXON, Harry Aatua ............................. February DIXON, Monica..................................... February GESTHUIZEN, Corina Rosina .............. February LAPWOOD, Michael James .................. February MAHER, Andrew Grant......................... February MORGAN, Deborah Vivien .................. February MORGAN, Ricky Moston ..................... February MORGAN, Tracey Tina......................... February POPATA, Sarah ..................................... February ROSS, Brian John .................................. February THOMPSON, Judith Annette ................ February BENNETT, Ernest ..................................... March DAVID, Lani May ..................................... March ALLEN, Craig John ..................................... April HILL, Tania Marie....................................... April RETI, Susan Amelia..................................... April BENNETT, Jennean Effie............................. May JAMIESON, Linda Ellen .............................. May AINSCOUGH, Denise Rhonda..................... June ANDERTON, Janine Mary ........................... June ANDERTON, Selwyn Barry ......................... June ANDERTON, Shane Lloyd........................... June DALEY, Charles ........................................... June DALEY, Ralda.............................................. June DALEY, Ronald............................................ June ARMISHAW, Sarah Frances .........................July DALEY, Christine..........................................July DIXON, Cherie ..............................................July DIXON, Harry ...............................................July DIXON, Monica.............................................July GARRETT, Angela Marie .............................July GOSS, Natalie Frances...................................July GRACE, Charles ............................................July SAUNDERS, Lisa Marie .......................... August STIRLING, Mark James ........................... August BULLOCH, Paul Jonathon ................. September DIXON, Charmaine ............................ September JANSEN, Kim Jacob........................... September JANSEN, Robert Marinos................... September KELSEN, Grant .................................. September KELSEN, Terrence ............................. September MATHEWSON, Brenda ..................... September MATHEWSON, Rodney .................... September MORUNGA, Teddy............................ September WARREN, Philip Lee......................... September WARREN, Rebecca Anne .................. September WARREN, Rodney Garfield............... September WEST, Lee Susan ............................... September BENTON, Kerry ......................................October BENTON, Shane Darrel ..........................October McMILLAN, Lynda Jane.........................October BRYCE, Graham..................................November HOGG, Michael Robert .......................November KELEHER, Garry Colin ......................November WILSON, Michelle Donna ..................November

1973 Events þ First US manned space station Skylab. þ Colour television broadcasting begins in New Zealand.

What were we singing in '73?

1 Blockbuster (Sweet), 2 I Love You Love Me Love (Gary Glitter), 3 Eye Level (Simon Park Orchestra), 4 Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round The Old Oak Tree (Dawn), 5 I'm The Leader of the Gang (Gary Glitter), 6 Cum on Feel the Noize (Slade), 7 See My Baby Jive (Wizzard), 8 Young Love (Donny Osmond), 9 Daydreamer/The Puppy Song (David Cassidy), 10 Long Haired Lover From Liverpool (Little Jimmy Osmond), 11 Skweeze Me Pleeze Me (Slade), 12 Merry Christmas Everybody (Slade), 13 Get Down (Gilbert O'Sullivan), 14 Welcome Home (Peters and Lee), 15 The Twelfth of Never (Donny Osmond), 16 Let Me In (Osmonds), 17 Paper Roses (Marie Osmond).

February ® Staff appointments were: N B Seaton, Principal (no class); Mrs M Bogie, Deputy Principal (Form 1 & 2); Mrs I Stanworth, Senior Teacher of Junior Classes (Primer 1); Mr H Gregory (Std 4 & F.1); Miss P Kirkwood (Std 1 & 2); Miss C deLacey (Std 3 & 4); Miss E Watt, Year 1 (Primer 2). ® The opening roll was 170 which was the lowest for some years. ® The Principal was released from classroom teaching due to the availability of an additional teacher. ® The roll rose to 182 within 6 days of the start of the year. ® The Annual Swimming Sports were held in the town pool. ® Mr D Burling, the new area inspector, made a contact visit.

March ® The Junior School Swimming Sports were held in the school pool. ® The Principal addressed the first PTA meeting of the year speaking to those present on school organisation and administration.

April ® Mr Gregory viewed on an inspection visit. ® Biennial election of School Committee where 29 parents presented 12 candidates. Chairman Mr Maurice Gerrand (sitting), Secretary Mr Rod Littlejohn, Mr Tom Hunt (sitting), Mr Jan Tapp (sitting), Mr Jon Leitch, Mrs Aileen Fletcher (sitting) and Mr David Armishaw.

May ® Annual Inter-school Cross Country held at Rakaumanga.

In the three graded events Kimihia gained one first, two seconds, one fourth and one sixth. ® Mrs Dean appointed as a Year One teacher.

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June ® A school committee member and the Principal met the Board Maintenance Officer at the school-house site to discuss lack of progress on the development of the section. ® PTA began card evenings.

July ® Mr M Gerrand (Chairman) and the Principal met the Borough Council to discuss the Russell Road frontages in terms of footpaths etc. for pupil safety. The Borough Engineer is to formulate a plan. ® Mr J Mathieson (S.A.E.B. Science Advisor) called for discussion concerning plantings within the grounds.

Several ideas were discussed and the three to be followed up were (a) replanting of south-east bank, (b) pebble plot on frontage and (c) shelter plantings on lower field. ® School interviews were held following mid-year surveys.

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Country where the emphasis was on social studies and experiences. ® Annual combined schools Arts and Craft exhibition held. ® Athletics and Tabloids field day for Huntly schools.

December ® Std 3 to Form 2 pupils met with the Governor General at the Huntly Primary School. ® Room 5 visited Matangi on a class field trip. ® End of Year function was again a Family Day, successfully held at the school.

September ® PTA held a stall in Huntly for fundraising.

October ® Annual Music Festival held where the Kimihia choir presented solo under the direction of Miss deLacey. ® Teams of gymnastics represented the school in the Waikato Zone Championships. This was followed up by the senior girls and the ‘C’ boys competing in the Waikato Zone Championships. The Girls ‘A’ came second with Jan Tapp the individual champion. ® Principal attended a two-day maths course.

November ® Room 6 pupils began a three-day field trip to the King

1973, Room 1 Rear: Mark Stirling, Kim Jansen, Gary Rendall, Jason Pere, Simon Hiriaki, David McPherson, _______, Paul Bullock, ___Dean.

3rd Row: Teddy Morunga, Eugene Tischendorf, Bronwyn Watene, ____________, Lisa Bates, ____________, Kevin McDonald.

2nd Row: Jackie Rea, ____________, Effie Bennett, Susan Crow, Marie Adamson, Helena Powell, Kitrina David, ____________.

Front: Monica Dixon, ____________, Tracey Baxter, ____________, Sara Armishaw, Lisa Saunders, Angela Garrett, Kim Jansen.

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1973, Room 2 Rear: Teddy Morunga, John David, Jeffrey Rendall, Mark Foster, Shane Saunders, Brett Ainscough, Allen Powell, Gary Rendall.

3rd Row: ____________, Graeme Clout, Mark Allen, _______Leech, Phillip Hill, David________, ____________, Jeremy Armishaw, Brenda Saunders, ______Watt.

2nd Row: Kelly Goss, Rachael Littlejohn, ____________, ______________, Kim McIvor, Giselle Tischendorf, ____________, Lynne Perry, Richard Lennox.

Front: Susan Crowe, Rebecca Warren, Diane Adamson, Dianne Allen, Susan Giles, Carolyn Horrox, Tracey Baxter .

1973, Room 3 Rear: ____________, ____________, Joseph Hiriaki, Bruce Horrox, Shane Goss.

4th Row: Roger Tapp, Steven Plas, Stuart Dobson, Ernest Powell, Andrew Maher, Nigel Dally, Stephen Crow.

3rd Row: Mark Turton, Laura Littlejohn, Sharlene Rutene, Alene Carter, Yasmin Tischendorf, Robert Jansen, ____________, _______Kirkwood.

2nd Row: Megan Leitch, Wendy Hunt, ____________, Helen McDonald, Jeanette Lennox, Carol Darke, Jacky Pere, Tracey Leitch.

Front: Sandra Perry, Fiona Bell, Helen Giles, Cherie Dixon, Shelley Rea, Lynda McMillan, Andrea Syme.

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1973, Room 4 Rear: Lyel Ashby, Reid Taipari, Stuart Dunn, Kevin Wallace, Joseph Dunstan, Stephen Forrest.

3rd Row: Shane Anderton, Gary Rakels, Stuart Brunnel, Grant Dally, Grant Nash, Glenn Holland, Tony Ralph.

2nd Row: Craig Hunt, Brenda Page, Bruce Horrox, Ricky Morgan, Greg Allan, Richard Plas, Phillip Warren, Wayne Ashby, Front: Fiona Bell, Carmel Rea, Susan Reti, Jenny Manaia, Tracey Thompson, Robyn Turton, Claire de Lacey.

Part of the land allocated for Kimihia settlement by the Auckland College of Education because of its worthlessness.

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1973, Room 5 Rear: ___________, ___________, ___________, ____________, ___________, Michael Manaia, ___________, ___________.

3rd Row: Haig Gregory, ____________, David Tilson, Alex Base, Murray Slater, ____________, ____________, ____________.

2nd Row: Karen Fletcher, Suzanne Dunstan, Denise Tinney, ____________, Anne Campbell, Leanne Holland, Vivienne Gerrand, Karen Hartis, Front: Cheryl Harper, Linda Gatehouse, ____________, Andrea Ralph, Fiona Giles, Jan Somerville, Carol ________ .

Part of the land allocated for Kimihia settlement by the Auckland College of Education because of its worthlessness.

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1973 Forms 1 & 2 Rear: Peter Fletcher, Stephen Forrest, Toney Hiriaki, Graeme Parkinson, Bruce McCormack, Barry Dixon, Kevin Holland, John Dunn.

3rd Row: Ernest Darke, Stephen Fransham, Roger Tinney, Jimmy Nash, Mark Hunt, Chris Kendrick, Kevin Stirling.

2nd Row: Susan Stanich, Diane Wallace, Denise Carter, Anne Challenor, Lynley Holland, Jan Tapp, Jillian Seaton, Marion Bogie.

Front: Andrea Gerrand, Patricia Jones, Angus Pollack, Carol Brungar, Dale McDonald, Jackie Forrest, Briony Page.

Mural designed and constructed by pupils of Kimihia School.

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1974 1974 Events þ Arabs raise price of oil by 400%. þ Commonwealth games held in Christchurch.

ENROLMENTS 1974 ASHBY, Simon ..................................... February DIXON, Charmaine ............................... February DIXON, Cherie...................................... February DIXON, Monica .................................... February HIRIAKI, Brian Richard........................ February HOGG, Andrew John............................. February JOE, Duckey .......................................... February JONES, Lynda Carol ............................. February JONES, Trevor Graeme......................... February LEITCH, Matthew Jon .......................... February MALONE, Thomas James..................... February McLUCKIE, Dean Murray .................... February MOFFITT, Paul William ....................... February STONEMAN, Mark Walter................... February DIXON, Harry ........................................... March HEADLEY, Bryce Hart ............................. March BAXTER, Lyndell Pamela .......................... April BRUNING, Penelope Joan .......................... April COMPAIGN, Mark ..................................... April HARRISON, Michael Stephen .................... April HUNTER, Amanda Jane.............................. April MORUNGA, David Lee .............................. April LANGLANDS, Katrina May .........................May BATE, Darren John ...................................... June BRUNGAR, Arlene Marie............................ June GILES, Janine Michelle................................ June TURNER, Mark............................................ June DALEY, Ronald ............................................ July HAPI, David .................................................. July HOETA, Charles............................................ July HOETA, Diane .............................................. July HOETA, Tania............................................... July HUGHES, Christina....................................... July HUGHES, James Barford .............................. July JOE, Miho Ling ........................................ August McMILLAN, Gary David ......................... August GREENE, Eve Ewanna........................September GREENE, Jennifer Kim.......................September GREENE, Tarra Rene..........................September AYLOTT, Paul ........................................October AYLOTT, Spencer Malcolm ...................October BOURKE, Marie Margaret......................October MURROW, Angeline Terese...................October MURROW, Bernadette Joy .....................October ROBERTSON, Sandra Wehea ................October BLAIR, Georgina Marie ...................... November BLAIR, William John.......................... November COPE, Michael Eban........................... November HAYCOCK, Paul Andrew................... November ROBERTSON, Maria Lynne ............... November WATERHOUSE, Brent ....................... November WATERHOUSE, Tania....................... November What were we singing in '74?

1 She (Charles Aznavour), 2 Tiger Feet (Mud),

3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19

Sugar Baby Love (Rubettes), Seasons in the Sun (Terry Jacib), Gonna Make You a Star (David Essex), Billy Don't be a Hero (Paper Lace), Rock Your Baby (George McCrae), Everything I Own (Ken Boothe), Kung Fu Fighting (Carl Douglas), Love Me For a Reason (Osmonds), When Will I See You Again (Three Degrees), Devil Gate Drive (Suzi Quatro), Waterloo (ABBA), The Streak (Ray Stevens), Kissin' in the Back Row of the Movies (Drifters), Killer Queen (Queen), The Air That I Breathe (Hollies), I'm Leaving it All up to You (Donny & Marie Osmond), Shang-a-Lang (Bay City Rollers).

February ® The year started with a roll of 175 and the following staff: Mr B Seaton (Principal), Mrs M Bogie (Deputy Principal), Mrs J Stanwick (STJC), Mr Gregory, Miss de Lacey (appointed to a permanent vacancy), Miss Chambers and Miss K Johnston (Year 1). ® The Principal attended a liason committee with the Power Project. The housing development will have a great effect on the school roll. ® Mrs Clark of the Waikato Branch of the Royal life Saving Society began tuition of selected swimmers. ® Carnival Swimming Sports held in the town pool.

March ® Traffic Officer Fischer called to train the 1974 Traffic Wardens. ® The committee cannot arrange for a pedestrian crossing due to the low traffic density. ® Interschool swimming sports held in the Huntly pool.

The Kimihia swimmers gained several heat placings but were unsuccessful in the finals. ® Mr Mjirkeresk, chief architect for the South Auckland Education Board, called with plans for building additions to end up with a 10-room school. ® Sixteen swimmers were tested for Life Saving certificates - all passed. ® Discussion groups under the sponsorship of the PTA for the Education Development Conference saw only eight attending. Discussion centred on maori and aural education. ® Tenders for school painting let. ® Pupils raised $68 as a donation to the Aged Trust Appeal in Huntly.

April ® The PTA Annual General Meeting was abandoned due to lack of support caused through late notification (1 day). ® June 1974 ® School Camp held at Port Waikato. All 69 of the Std 2 to Form 2 pupils went with three staff members, three parents and four cooks. The weather was perfect allowing the full programme to be completed. Mr B Seaton organised the camp as there was no Physical Educator

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was available. The Camp cost $8.70 a head and it transpired that approximately $100 of refundable subs was donated back to the school by the parents.

July ® The PTA held its first ever social function - a wine and cheese evening. About 90 attended, including a few pre-school parents. ® School class visits on field trips - Bakery, Rakaumanga & the Chartwell Fire Station. ® 86% of parents attended the mid-year interviews. New report form voted in by parents.

August ® $251 raised by PTA annual street stall. ® Annual Interschool Winter Sports Day with Kimihia fielding netball and rugby teams.

September ® Advice received that a school flat is to be built for Kimihia. A housing application committee has been set up to handle all applications for tenancy of all school flats in Huntly. This committee comprised the Principals of Huntly Primary, Huntly West, Kimihia and Rakaumanga. It was decided to allocate one flat to each school.

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It was decided that all Rosser Block housing would attend Kimihia.

November ® PTA social and games evening attended by 56. ® Art & Craft evening convened by Kimihia attended by nine schools and their displays.

December ® An end of year function held on the 18th in the school grounds in fair weather. Afternoon programme of tabloids, races, swimming, etc. Items and official speeches by the Principal and Mr Gerrand in the evening.

Only three families stayed to the picnic tea due to the weather turning cold in the late afternoon. ® Mr Riley of the SAEB came to site the prefabricated classrooms as a temporary solution before the permanent buildings are ready. ® The school closed on the 20th with a roll of 199. Twentyeight form two pupils moved on to secondary school. ® The school has been upgraded to V.D. to start in 1975.

Additional staff, ancillary staff, part time staff and buildings arranged for February ‘75. The future expansion is unknown but is expected to be sudden and large.

October ® Annual Music Festival. The school choir of 24 performed an individual item with credit. ® A Summit Meeting of Principals and Committee Chairmen was called to meet South Auckland Education Board officers to discuss zoning of the new housing area.

1974 J2 Rear: ___________, Jeremy Armishaw, Selwyn Rutene, Ted Hapi, ___________, _____________, ____________, __________.

3rd Row (inset from left): Simon Hiriaki, ____________, Jay Pere, ____________, ______________, ____________.

2nd Row: Monica Dixon, ____________, Lisa Bate, ___________, Jacqui Rea, Susan Crow, Bronwyn Watene, _____________.

Front: Lyne Pere, ____________, ____________, Helena Powell, Kitrina David, ____________, ____________, _____________.

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1974 Stds 1 & 2 Rear: ____________, ____________, ____________, John David, Mark Turton, Roger Tapp, ______________, Graeme Clout.

3rd Row: Clair de Lacey, ______________, ______________, ______________, Phillip Hill, Jeffrey Rendall, Mark Allen, ______________, Stephen Plas, ______________ - Student Teacher.

2nd Row: Wendy Hunt, Shelley Rea, Cathy Bell, Sandy Perry, Helen McDonald, Giselle Tischendorf, ______________, ______________.

Front: ______________, Susan Giles, Rebecca Warren, Tanya Waterhouse, Diane Allen, Kelly Goss, Carolyn Horrox, Brenda Saunders, _____________, Sharlene Rutene.

1974 Stds 3 & 4 Rear: Joseph Dunstan, Shane Goss, Robert Jansen, Brian Clout, ______________, Tony Hiriaki, Peter Slee.

3rd Row: Shane Benton, Ernest Powell, Andrew Maher, Greg Allan, Brian Ross, Phillip Warren, _____________, Craig Hunt, Teacher Karen Johnson.

2nd Row: Tracey Thompson, Helen Pere, Carol Darke, _____________, Denise Carter, Helen Giles, Susan Reti, ______________.

Front: Bernadette Murrow, Yasmin Tischendorf, Laura Littlejohn, Jan Lennox, Jackie Pere, Elaine Watene, Debbie Morgan.

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1974 Std 4 Form 1 Rear: Lyal Ashby, Stewart Brungar, Kevin Wallace, Harry Dixon, Glen Holland, Gary Rakels, Stuart Dunn.

4th Row: Haigh Gregory, Grant Dalley, Mark Hunt, Shane Benton, Stephen Forrest, Greg Allen, Tony Hiriaki.

3rd Row: Wayne Ashby, Grant Nash, Wallace Rutene, David Horrox, Peter Hart, Richard Plas.

2nd Row: Jan Somervelle, Jenny Manaia, Carmel Rea, Robyn Turton, Fiona Bell, Jennifer Slater.

Front: Lorraine Manaia, Ann Campbell, Vivienne Gerrand, Leanne Holland, Karen Hartis, Sheryl Harper, Linda Gatehouse.

1974 Forms 1 & 2 Rear: Mark Hunt, Murray Slater, Shawn Rutene, _______ Slee, Harold Thompson, Michael Manaia, ______________.

3rd Row: _______ Bass, Gary Rakels, John Thomson, Michael Perry, Rikki Hiriaki, Kevin Slee, Alex Bass, Steven Fransham.

2nd Row: Carolyn Stirling, Fiona Giles, Susan Stanich, Jan Tapp, Tara Greene, Andrea Ralph, Marion Bogie.

Front: Jillian Seaton, Karen Fletcher, Polly Pere, Diane Wallace, Denise Carter, Suzanne Dunstan, Denise Tinney, Anne Hamilton.

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School Leader Mark Hunt handing the pupils’ cheque to Mr Guy King, Chairman of the Home For The Aged Trust.

1974 Staff Rear: Clair de Lacey, Haig Gregory, Bruce Seaton, Karen Johnson, Liz Chambers.

Front: ______________, Marion Bogie, Judy Stanich,

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The parents approved of this new change to the report format. This copy courtesy of Helen McDonald.

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1975

1975 1975 Events þ First NZ Games held in Christchurch. þ First woman swims Cook Strait. þ Robert Muldoon becomes Prime Minister.

ENROLMENTS 1975 BENTON, Stacey Norma ...................... February CHALLINOR, Scott Michael ................ February DIXON, Robert John ............................. February DONAGHY, Lorna Jayne...................... February FOSTER, Michelle Lee ......................... February FREDERICK, Shelli Renee ................... February GRIFFITHS, Matthew James ................ February HAPI, David .......................................... February HART, Michelle Larine ......................... February HODGSON, Anthony John.................... February HODGSON, Michael Ronald ................ February JAMIESON, John Graeme..................... February KEEPA, Rangi....................................... February KEEPA, William ................................... February MacDONALD, Kim Maree ................... February McLAUGHLIN, Lisa Maria .................. February MOFFITT, Terry Owen......................... February NGAKETE, Rihitoto Ngahuia ............... February POWELL, Shane Michael ..................... February PRATT, Kingi Kiriwera ........................ February PRATT, Murray Keith........................... February PRATT, Sydney Parekohai.................... February SALMON, Kenneth ............................... February SCHUSTER, Glenna Jo-Ann................. February SKELTON, Sandra Lee ......................... February TETLEY, Christine Ruth ....................... February THOMPSON, Richard Gary.................. February VITASOVICH, Lisa Gaye..................... February CLAY, Rodney Paul .................................. March FOSTER, Darren Robert ........................... March GRIFFITHS, Evan John ............................ March HUNTER, Janette Marie ........................... March NASH, Shelley Kathleen ........................... March PEDEN, Craig ........................................... March SCHUSTER, Galcey Annette .................... March TOTOREWA, Ray Vincent ....................... March WHAREKURA, Parerututu ....................... March ROBSON, Mark Paul .................................. April MITCHELL, Kerry Aaron .............................May PATERSON, Craig Alain ..............................May RENDALL, Wayne Edward ..........................May BARLOW, Ora ............................................. June CHRISTIE, Tania Gaye................................ June GOSS, Kristen Therese................................. June REDDY, Mark Anthony ............................... June REDDY, Tania Jean ..................................... June WILLIS, Craig Norman ................................ June WILLIS, Tania Maree .................................. June FRANK, Richard Bruce................................. July GARRETT, Carleen Cherie ........................... July MacKENZIE, Andrew Robert ....................... July PASCOE, Philipa Gladys............................... July WHAREKURA, Jessica Aroha...................... July FLOWERDAY, Brett Delaney ................. August HEADLEY, Kay Halton ........................... August

BELL, Karen Ann ................................September BULLOCH, Wayne Michael................September DIXON, Charmaine .............................September DIXON, Cherie ....................................September DIXON, Monica Ann...........................September DIXON, Robert John ...........................September McLAUGHLIN, John-Paul Spencer ....September NGAKETE, Hemi................................September PEARCE, Brent Gordon ......................September PRATT, Robert Charles.......................September ROBERTS, Joanne Elizabeth ..............September RODGER, Andrew Paul ......................September TUMUPU, Tapuni ...............................September COTTLE, Lisa Kim .................................October GRACE, Charles......................................October TETLEY, Maria Frances .........................October WALLACE, Darren Joseph .....................October WATENE, Tui Christopher .....................October BRUNING, Stephanie.......................... December LOWRY, Shane ................................... December LOWRY, Tania.................................... December ROBSON, John David ......................... December What was sung in '75?

1 Bye Bye Baby (Bay City Rollers), 2 Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen), 3 Sailing (Rod Stewart), 4 Whispering Grass (Windsor Davies and Don Estelle), 5 Hold Me Close (David Essex), 6 I Can't Give You Anything (Stylisties), 7 Stand By Your Man (Tammy Wynette), 8 I Only Have Eyes For You (Art Garfunkel), 9 Tears on my Pillow (Johnny Nash), 10 You Sexy Thing (Hot Chocolate), 11 Fox on the Run (Sweet), 12 The Last Farewell (Roger Whittaker), 13 Three Steps to Heaven (Showaddywaddy), 14 Please Mr Postman (Carpenters), 15 Misty (Ray Stevens), 16 Wombling Merry Christmas (Wombles).

January ® Staff: W.B.Seaton (Principal), Mrs Marion Bogie (Rm 10, F2, Deputy Principal), Mrs J. Stanworth (Room 1, New Entrants, S.T.J.C.), Mr H.Gregory (Room 9, Form 1), Miss S.Kirkpatrick (Room 5, Std 3), Miss A.Dinnison (Room 6, Std 4), Mr J.Stewart (Room 4, Std 2, Year 1), Miss C.McKeon (Room 2, Year 2), Miss C.deLacey (Room 3, Std 1), Miss L.Chambers (Reliever, Junior Dept.), Mrs A.Harris (Reliever, Junior Dept.), Mrs V.Gerrand (Clerical Assistant, 13 hours p/week), Mrs L.Goss (Teacher Aide, 10 hours p/week), Mrs D.Adamson (Librarian, 2 hours p/week). ® Two old prefabs are on site to hold accommodation until the new block is finished. ® Roll of 186 to start the year. Sixteen pupils enrolled on the first day, five from the power project.