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1 January 1970
Franklin County Council adopts a 20-hectare (50-acre) minimum subdivisional requirement in rural zoned areas, intended to limit 'suburban sprawl' and the loss of productive agricultural land to housing and lifestyle plots (see also 28 August 1990).
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2 February 1970
The final sale is held at Papakura's Cook Street saleyards. All stock sales in the area are now held at the Opaheke saleyards (see also 22 May 1978). Papakura Central School is later relocated to the old saleyards site.
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3 February 1970
Classes begin at Rosehill College, Papakura (the official opening takes place on 9 December 1970).
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3 February 1970
Enrolments begin at Manukau Technical Institute. The official opening ceremony is held on 22 July 1970 (see also 1 September 1987).
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3 February 1970
Otara No. 3 Intermediate School, later named Ferguson Intermediate School, opens.
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4 February 1970
The New Zealand Viticultural Association holds its annual picnic at the Villa Maria winery in Kirkbride Road, Mangere. This is the first time for some years the event has been held outside Henderson, and is a tribute to the success of George Fistonich, who had established Villa Maria Wines at his family vineyard in 1961 (see also 25 February 2005).
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17 February 1970
About this time the former Wallace homestead, a long-time landmark near the corner of St George Street and Wallace Road, Papatoetoe, is demolished.
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21 February 1970
'Shamrock Cottage', which began life as the Royal Hotel and is now Howick's second oldest surviving building, is formally reopened after extensive restoration work has been undertaken.
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24 February 1970
The Favona Ratepayers Association reports that the Mangere Inlet has become much cleaner following the opening of the Mangere sewerage treatment plant and there is now good swimming to be had offshore from the newly developed Norana Park.
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March 1970
The Papakura Literary Society is formed.
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1 March 1970
Seventh-Day Adventist High School, Mountain Road, Mangere, is officially opened.
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7 March 1970
The pioneer aviatrix Jean Batten formally opens Jean Batten Primary School in Mangere.
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9 March 1970
The Papatoetoe Plunket Society East Tamaki sub-branch formally opens its new clinic building. It establishes another clinic in Otara in 1971. On 20 November 1972 the sub-branch becomes a full Plunket Society branch in its own right, known as the East Tamaki/Otara branch (see also 5 August 1982).
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17 March 1970
A Family Planning Association clinic is opened in Station Road, Otahuhu, South Auckland's first such clinic. An Otara clinic is also opened on 4 September 1972, and a Mangere clinic on 2 May 1974.
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20 March 1970
The Auckland Savings Bank's (ASB) new Papakura branch is opened. The bank had first opened a branch in the town in 1954 (see also 26 November 1981).
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25 March 1970
Manukau City Council approves a 13-acre subdivision proposal on the western edge of the Kohuora Crater despite hopes that the area will be developed for recreation. In 1975 futher subdivision takes place on the southern edge of the crater (see also February 1994).
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4 April 1970
The newly formed Howick Air Rifle Club holds its first competitive match at the Howick Rifle Club range.
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15 April 1970
The Howick New Kindergarten Committee is established with the aim of setting up a second kindergarten in the town.
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17 April 1970
The St Brigid's Catholic church building is moved from Peach Hill, near Ramarama, to Raventhorpe Hospital to serve as an interdenominational chapel (see also 25 October 1990). Franklin County Council takes over the administration of the former church cemetery at Peach Hill.
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18 April 1970
The Auckland Softball Association begins work on the development of its newly acquired home grounds in Norana Avenue, Mangere, one of the few privately owned parks in Manukau City. 'Softball Park', as it becomes known, is fully ready for use by the summer of 1977.
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