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THE NEWCOME computer project designed to integrate all computer systems of the pre amalgamation Auckland district’s computers has over run it’s original $71 million budget to a current estimate of $157 million.

MEN in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true – Julius Caesar.

ALMOST no molecule in the human body is likely to be more than nine years old.

CRUFTS DOG SHOW this year attracted 18,400 entries from British dog owners and 2,987 foreign entries. Dog of the Year prize id only one hundred pounds, but resulting breeding fees priceless.

THE AVERAGE Martinborough rates in 1957 were between nine and ten pounds ($419 – $466) per year.

IF HISTORY repeats itself and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience –George Bernard Shaw.

IN THE eleven years that they have been in the NRL rugby competition the best the NZ Warriors have achieved is 4th in 2007 and a 5th in 2010 .

KNOWLEDGE is knowing that a tomato is fruit. Wisdom is not putting it into a fruit salad.

POLITICS is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realise that it bears a very close resemblance to the first” – Ronald Regan

QANTUS and British Imperial Airways combined to provide the inaugural Australia to London air service on April 13th 1935

THE CELLS in the top layer of your skin are all dead – you are entirely covered in dead cells. K,,An average adult is wearing two kilograms of dead skin cells of which half falloff every day.

THE World Health Organisation was formed at Geneva in April 1948.
“SUCCESS is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Sir Winston Churchill.

NO PART of New Zealand is further than one hundred and twenty kilometres from the sea.

ZIMBABWE, formerly Rhodesia, became an independent country in April 1980.

NOT ALL chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen there would be no way to make water, the vital ingredient in beer.

ALBERT EINSTEIN died in April 1955 at the age of 75. He was widely acknowledged as one of the most creative intellects in human history. Among his many awards was the Nobel Prize for physics in1921.

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