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(SOME) SENIORS - WAIKATO B DIVISION - 1969

From left: Clyde Turner, Barry White, Maurice Frankhouser, Malcolm Burt, Jim McCaig, Keith Watson,
George Sunnex, Joe Templeton.
Absent: Richard Saville, Sandy MacDonald (behind the camera), Billy Heslop, Charles Gorman,
Martin Staples & Howard Pharo.

WORLD EVENTS OF 1969 The above photo was taken on
• The first man is landed on the moon. Centennial Park, later to become the home of
• The first Led Zeppelin album is launched the club. Behind the players is the block shed
• First ever space walk conducted between two Russian space that served as changing room and bar. It had
previously served as the base for the
vehicles Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5. Ngaruawahia Cricket Club.
• Richard Nixon becomes 37th President of the United States The buildings in the top left distance
• The Beatles give their last public performance. are of the Waipa Primary School. The
• The Boeing 747 jumbo jet makes maiden flight. intervening space, known as the “Tomato
• John Lennon & Yoko Ono married. Patch” was later to become the #1 field for the
club.
• Ngaruawahia United takes the field for the first time. That area was officially designated as
• First temporary artificial heart implanted. Cemetery but the condition of the soil
• The Beatles have their photo taken at a zebra crossing on Abbey precluded any digging below the surface, due to
Road. the solidity of the clay substructure. It was also
prone to extremely poor drainage.
• The movie “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” opens. In later years the Council assisted in
• The first message is sent over ARPANET, the forerunner of the providing proper drainage of the field with the
internet. provision of two connected bulldozers pulling a
• Sesame Street first aired. single router blade to break through the clay
• Soccer great Pele scores his 1,000th goal. and enable drainage channels to be provided.
It was well noted by opposition teams

• New Zealand produces first steel from ironsands. that at the end of their games Ngaruawahia
• Introduction of driver breath alcohol tests in NZ. always left the field in high spirits, despite the
• Auckland harbour bridge expands to eight lanes with “Nippon Clip- scorelines always favouring their opponents.
ons”. The “greens” never dwelt on any negatives
• Twenty-year-old Kiwis allowed to vote. from the match.

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