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MARTINBOROUGH SCHOOL mathematicians Billy Jenkinson, Joshua Sherwood and Jack Lovell took out the Year 6 title at this year’s Matharapa competition.

WAIRARAPA Ploughing Match Association Annual Match is on the 5th October at 117 Gladstone Road Carterton. Ploughing Commences at 10.30 a.m.  Admission by  Gold Coin

NICKY HAGER’S father ran a large Levin clothing factory famous for its trendy 1960s bright floral/paisley shirts.

EVERY DAY 8.3 million people (the population of New York) fly by commercial airlines. Over three billion people a year.
‘IT CAN’T be easy trying to fund a political party these days. With politicians as popular as a wasp in a submarine you’d probably have more luck having a whip around for President Assad’ – commentator Charlie Brooker.

FOLLOWING an only 25% turnout in their local body elections Los Angeles City council has decided to ‘seriously consider ’offering random drawn financial incentives for voters.

CANTERBURY, founded in July 1879, is New Zealand’s oldest provincial Rugby Union. Wellington founded in Oct of the same year is the second oldest with Otago, founded a year later, the third.

DURING AN average life the heart pumps one million barrels of blood – enough to fill three super tankers. It would take your heart only 18 days to pump the equivalent of an Olympic size swimming pool.

POACHERS are currently slaughtering 35,000 African Elephants a year to supply the Asian demand for ivory. With only 15,000 baby elephants born each year extinction beckons.

BRITAIN’S first robot was displayed by its inventor Cpt. Ricards and A.H. Renfell at he London Engineering Exhibition in September 1928.

THE PERSON who says that it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.

A BABY has 270 bones where as an adult only has 206 bones. As a young person grows some of the soft smaller bones fuse.

NORTH KOREA proclaimed its independence on 9th September 1948.

THE 1960s dance craze ‘The Twist’ was described as stubbing out cigarettes with both feet while rubbing your back with a towel.

CRICKET is the game that the English, not being particularly spiritual people, had to invent to have some concept of eternity.

THE FIRST sound cartoon film ‘Steamboat Willie’ featuring Mickey Mouse (originally to be Mortimer Mouse) was released by Walt Disney in September 1928