Page 40 - Kimihia Volume 2

 Annual combined schools Arts and Craft
 Teams of gymnasts represented the school in the
exhibition held.
Waikato Zone Championship. This was followed up  Athletics and Tabloids field day for Huntly schools.
by the Senior girls and the ‘C’ boys competing in the
Waikato Zone Championships. The girls ‘A’ came December
second with Jan Tapp the individual champion.  Std 3 to Form 2 pupils met with the Governor
 The principal attended a two-day mathematics General at the Huntly Primary School.
 Room 5 visited Matangi on a class field trip.
course.  End of Year function was again a Family
Day, successfully held at the school.
November
 Room 6 pupils began a three-day field trip to the
King Country where the emphasis was on social
studies and experiences.

1973, Room 1
Rear: Mark Stirling, Kim Jansen, Gary Rendall, Jason Pere, Simon Hiriaki, David McPherson,
(1)______________, Paul Bullock, (2)__________Dean.
3rd Row: Teddy Morunga, Eugene Tischendorf, Bronwyn Watene, (3)____________, Lisa Bates,
(4)_______________, Kevin McDonald.
2nd Row: Jackie Rea, (5)_______________, Effie Bennett, Susan Crow, Marie Adamson, Helena Powell,
Kitrina David, (6)________________.
Front: Monica Dixon, (7)_______________, Tracey Baxter, (8)_______________, Sara Armishaw,
Lisa Saunders, Angela Garrett, Kim Jansen.

New Zealand Events in 1973
first-class matches in England before the end of
 Opposition to French nuclear testing intensifies.
 Oil prices increased from $3 a barrel to $20 a May.
barrel making petrol prices in NZ higher.  Comedian John Clarke introduced New Zealand
to his alter-ego Fred Dagg – and a host of ‘Trevs’.
 Introduction of the Domestic Purposes Benefit.
 Colour TV arrived just in time for New
 Population reaches 3 million. Zealanders to enjoy the pomp and ceremony of
 Fearing the ‘greatest eruption of violence this
country has ever known’, the Kirk-led Labour Princess Anne’s wedding to Captain Mark Phillips
government cancelled the proposed 1973 in November.
Springbok tour.  Selwyn Toogood’s popular long-running radio
 New Zealand batsman Glenn Turner became just and stage show It's in the bag made its TV debut.
the seventh cricketer to score a thousand runs in The popularity of both Toogood and the format
saw the show screen continuously until 1990.