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1976 Staff
Rear: Lenore Goss, Val Gerrand, Sheryl Fitzpatrick, Fred Tompkins [Caretaker].
Middle: Helen Sutton, ( 1 ) E__________ Harper, (2) C__________ Donohue, Bronwyn Chick.
Front: Ken Garland, Marion Bogie, Bruce Seaton, Judith Stanworth, Neil Couch.

New Zealand Events in 1976

 The Matrimonial Property Act introduced the Robert Muldoon – speaking under Parliamentary
principle of equal sharing of the assets of a privilege – accused senior Labour member Colin
marriage in the event of its dissolution after three Moyle of having been ‘picked up’ by the police
years or more. It did not apply to dissolved de for homosexual activity, which was then illegal.
facto relationships.  With the economy in recession and
 The golden arches appeared for the first time in unemployment rising, the spotlight was turned
New Zealand at Cobham Court, Porirua. on ‘overstayers’ – immigrants whose temporary
Kentucky Fried Chicken had begun the visas had expired. Accused of overloading the
American fast food invasion of New Zealand welfare system, some were detained and

five years earlier. deported. Dawn raids on the homes of alleged
 The last sailing of the Rangatira brought to an overstayers by police began in 1974 and
end more than 80 years of regular passenger intensified in October 1976.
ferry services between Lyttelton and Wellington.  The anti-nuclear movement in New Zealand
 The country’s first centralised electronic broadened into opposition to visits from
database was established in Whanganui. While American nuclear-powered and -armed vessels.
some questioned the state’s right to collate  The All Blacks toured South Africa in defiance
information on its citizens, the Police Minister of a United Nations call for a sporting embargo
hailed it as a ‘most significant crime-fighting of the republic. In response, 26 African nations

weapon’. carried out their threat to boycott the
 The ‘Moyle affair’ began when Prime Minister games should New Zealand attend.