50 years ago
❚ With the completion of the last six pipes of the 252,000 feet, wrapped and coated, for the Kapuni condensate project, Hume Industries Ltd began dismantling the pipewrapping
plant near Parititu rock at Port Taranaki, New Plymouth.
❚ The idea of reclaiming land along New Plymouth’s foreshore was worthy of a lot more thought and investigation, a New Plymouth consulting engineer, Mr Bruce Henderson, maintained.
❚ Successful candidates from Ha¯wera on the Agriculture Department’s meat inspectors’ examinations at Lincoln College, Canterbury, were Messrs A G Hughes and J P McGlinchey.
❚ After four years as officer in charge of the New Plymouth army office, New Plymouth-born Major J T Shaw was posted to Linton as second-incommand of the Linton army area.
❚ The man charged with demolishing
New Plymouth’s old post office and clock tower, Mr B H Sheppard of Palmerston North, arrived in New Plymouth to discuss the project, which he said would take about three weeks.
❚ After 50 years as a playing member of the Patea Municipal Brass Band, Mr W C Quayle retired from playing the cornet, tenor and flugel horn.
❚ The commanding officer of the No
48 Air Training Corps Squadron, Flight Lieutenant D A Low, Ha¯wera, led a party of four New Zealand cadets, including Cadet Sergeant P Wiley of Ha¯wera, on an exchange visit to Singapore as guests of the Malaysian ATC.
❚ Taranaki’s Mrs Ivy Opie skipped her team of Mollie Rudge (lead) and Ivy
George (three) to a resounding victory in the final of the Wanganui women’s open triples bowling tournament, thrashing the team of the Wangani centre champion, Mrs Joyce Bullock, 28-8.
❚ The first step towards becoming a professional golfer was taken by
20-year-old Howard Kennedy of Ha¯wera with the announcement that he would on March 1 begin a six-week professional training course.
❚ Movies: The Green Berets (Mayfair), John Wayne, David Janssen and Jim Hutton; The Day Of The Evil Gun (State), Glenn Ford, Arthur Kennedy and Dean Jagger; The Nun’s Story (Waitara Royal), Katherine Hepburn and Peter Finch; Bandoleroi (Stratford Plaza), James Stewart, Dean Martin, Raquel Welch and George Kennedy. ❚ The 10 Taranaki Air Training Corps cadets flown from Ohakea to attend the annual ATC adventure camp at Dip Flat in Marlborough’s Wairau Valley were J Styles, S Bone, H Crow, K Monaghan, J Olson and D Stokes (New Plymouth) and D and R Schmidt, P Avison and R MacFarlane (Stratford).
❚ Two hundred Ma¯ori and Pakeha children attend a week-long school of Christian living camp at Normanby organised by the Roman Catholic missionary for South Taranaki, Father J Durning.
❚ More than 100 people left Dawson Falls for the Egmont Alpine Club’s first open climb of the year, among the first to reach the summit being the club president, Mr R Syme, the oldest of the party to make the climb, in company with the youngest climber,
7-year-old Roger Bourke.
❚ Barry Hosking, a 25-year-old farmer from Cross Rd, near Stratford, won the Stratford Aero Club’s flying scholarship with Kevin Peters , 27, of Kaponga named as reserve winner.
35 Years Ago: Mr Roy Willcox of Hawera wins 14 of 32 awards made at North Is West Coast Gladioli Society show; Taranaki Savings Bank cuts house mortgage rates from 14.5 per cent to 11 per cent; pianist Christine Sangster (27) of Ngaere passes London Trinity College’s highest exam; Paul Ballinger (New Plymouth) wins 19km Okato Cheese race.
25 Years Ago: 378 teams contest Taranaki open fours bowls tournament; Dave McManus scores first win in Cycling North Taranaki’s
40km road.