Sid Moses pictured in the first thread was in charge of metrication of nz's money,Winning at the Waiheke Island TT gave him an entry to the Isle of Man TT that was the reward dangled in front of them. Sid was the first kiwi to finish a IOMTT in 1933 from memory, I visited him in the late 90's he showed me the scar on his arm 60 years since he'd hurt himself in practice.
He still raced and completed a race in that condition. You could imagine the injury must have been a beauty to have that still visible after 60 odd years.
The waiheke Island event was essentially NZ's first road race, certainly first actual street race and it was on an island in the middle of the sea in winter, not fun. It was to imitate the IOMTT which was run at the same time, Queens/Kings birthday here. Teo things, the IOM is at the start of their summer that time of the year and the winner wouldn't be there to defend their title if the race had continued at that date, seomthing they may not have considered.....