NUAFC 1968-2018

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