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5 January 1940
The First Echelon leaves Papakura Military Camp for service overseas. (The Second Echelon departs on 1 May and the Third Echelon on 26 August.)
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7 January 1940
A New Zealand 1940 Centennial thanksgiving service is held in the Waiuku Town Hall.
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February 1940
Waiuku road carriers form Waiuku Transport Ltd. This has twenty shareholders and 38 vehicles, and purchases 38 vehicle authorities from existing individual operators. (The company is wound up in March 1947, its members either selling out or setting up as individual operators again.)
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February 1940
Henry E.R. L. Wily's book, South Auckland, goes on sale. The first history of the region, this is an official 1940 Centennial publication sponsored by the Manukau, Franklin, Raglan and Waipa County Councils.
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10 February 1940
The Papakura Centennial Rest Room is opened, the result of a 1940 centennial project. The building also serves as the local Plunket room.
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10 February 1940
The Manurewa School swimming pool is formally opened.
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20 April 1940
The newly formed Te Awhau Golf Club opens a nine-hole golf course on a farm at Awhitu. The club's members are drawn from Awhitu, Pollok and Graham's Beach (see also 19 March 1983).
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6 May 1940
About this time the well-known businessman Henry Kelliher acquires Puketutu Island from Mr and Mrs Harry Bull. Kelliher establishes a stud farm on the island, plants trees widely, improves the homestead, and transforms the gardens; he also establishes a sawmill and a quarry. On 19 July 1963 the island is sold to the Kelliher Charitable Trust (see also April 1995).
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20 May 1940
Centennial Park, Tuakau, is officially opened.
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25 May 1940
The Pukekohe Musical and Dramatic Society is formed. It is later renamed the Franklin Little Theatre Society.
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9 June 1940
The inaugural service of the Manurewa Baptist church is held at Pegler's Buildings, Great South Road. The church establishes its own premises in Station Road in 1950 (see also 2 December 1961).
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9 July 1940
The first sale is completed at a small seaside subdivision developed by the Cashmore family at Te Papa Road, Kawakawa Bay. The subdivision becomes known by holidaymakers as 'Snake Gully', the name being inspired by a popular radio series of the time.
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14 August 1940
The Mangatangi public hall is opened.
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16 August 1940
The New Zealand Home Guard is founded. This is to have a Dominion commander, three Military District commanders, and 16 area officers. Colonel M. Aldred of Taurangaruru (near Waiuku) is later in the year offered command of the Auckland Military District, and establishes his headquarters at Waiuku (see also 1 August 1941).
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21 August 1940
A group of Waiuku farmers set up the Waiuku Increased Production Committee in order to maximise production for the war effort.
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23 August 1940
Manurewa's new cinema, the Regent, is opened, replacing a building which had burned down in Easter 1939. (The Regent itself is demolished in March 1965; thereafter Manurewa lacks a purpose-built cinema until the Cinecenta opens on 19 August 1971.)
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Photo: View of Great South Road, Manurewa, during the 1950s, showing the Regent Theatre (cinema). (Manukau Libraries, Manurewa Historical Society Collection, MNA: I, 2 no. EO1)

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26 August 1940
Mr E.C. Selwyn Hamlin, writes to Franklin County Council asking it to ensure the preservation of an historic red gum tree at Orua Bay reputedly planted by the Reverend James Hamlin in 1836. (By other accounts, the tree had been planted by Thomas Coulthard during the 1860s.)
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9 October 1940
The Howick Scout Troop is formed. (A Lone Scout Troop had previously been active in the town during the early 1920s.)
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21 October 1940
The Awhitu Home Guard committee is established. This is the first local Home Guard branch established in the Franklin sub-area, which stretches from Papakura to Mercer, and includes the whole of Franklin County and the southern portion of Manukau County (see also March 1941).
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9 November 1940
The official opening of the Waiuku bowling and croquet clubs' new greens at Massey Park is held (see also 19 October 1950).
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