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CONGRATULATIONS to Ineke and David on becoming grandparents for the fourth time. Marijke has presented them with a granddaughter, Frieda.

THE FIRSTAnzac Service was a united service held in the Martiborough Town Hall on Tuesday April 25th 1916

A WORLD War One Display is now on at the Martinborough Museum Open Weekends & Public Holidays 1-30 to 3-30

LIFE FLIGHT rescue helicopter crew man Dave Greenberg has recently retired after twenty five years service during which time having carried out almost 4,000 rescue missions.

A WELLINGTON library borrower owes the library over $4,000 for the ninety three books he borrowed and never returned. Have to wonder why they kept issuing more – can’t see the Martinborough Librarians doing this.

AROUND THREE THOUSAND New Zealander’s celebrate their birthday on 29th February.

THE STRONGEST recorded winds in New Zealand were recorded at MT. John on the 17th April 1970 when the gusts reached 250 kph

PRETENSIOUSNESS is interesting , at least you are making an effort.

SIX MILLION tonnes of tuna is legally caught in the Pacific each year. It is estimated that an additional nine million tonnes is illegally taken by the licence holders not reporting all their catch.

ENTOMOLOGIST Frans Smitt identified and catalogued thirty four species if fleas in New Zealand – in forty mind numbing pages. And I thought that a flea was just a flea.

IN THE LAST football transfer window Chinese football clubs paid over five hundred million dollars in contracting top European football stars.

HUMANS HAVE 206 bones. Cats have 245 bones. The greater number gives cats greater flexibility . A cat is one of the few animals which can lick the middle of it’s back.

THERE ARE six hundred and forty registered statues in the UK

THE 1971 INVENTOR of the E-mail, with the use of the @ for the address, Electrical Engineer Raymond Tomlinson, died last month. At the time there were few personal computers but now 425 million E-mails are sent every day.

INDIA currently produces two and a half million motor bikes a year ranging from small runabouts to BMW models.

FIFA HAS revealed that Sepp Blatter’s salary for 2015 was the NZ equivalent of three million dollars base salary plus ‘extras’ amounting to seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. He must have been a hard worker.

Deadline for the May issue is 4pm Wednesday April 27th