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Brenda Martin-Smith 3rd. Leanne Leech 3rd.
4-6 Native Trees (pressed, Lettuce -
mounted and named) - Rodger Tinney 1st,
Ian Bogie 1st, Kevin Robinson 2nd,
Sheryl Grut 2nd. Brenda Martin-Smith 3rd.
Lemons: Cooking (Sponge) -
Gaylene Johnson 1st, Sheryl Grut 1st,
Chris Kendrick 2nd, Lorraine Cope 2nd,
Peter Hart 3rd. Carolyn Thompson 3rd.
Potatoes:
Deane Carroll 1st, December
Ross Carroll 2nd,  The Christmas and End-of-Year social was held
Gaylene Johnson 3rd. in the St John’s Ambulance Hall on
Silver Beet - Wednesday 15th. The programme included
Wayne Clarke 1st, singing games, plays, physed displays, songs
Rodger Tinney 2nd, with actions along with free ice-creams and
Deane Carroll 3rd. sweets for the children.
Rhubarb -  The school year ended on Friday 17th at 2pm.
Brett Holland 1st,
Kevin Robinson 2nd,

The Kimihia Mine village (1963 photo)
The canal shown running across between the village and the mine maintenance area was the route 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 into the Waikato River away to the west.