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RIO BOSWELL competed in the National Pokemon Championships in Auckland where he won the Junior Championships for the second year in a row. As his prize Rio will now travel to Melbourne to compete there.

EMILY GOODMAN’s Skoolbro Numeracy Challenge win was for tickets to the Ice Age Live show, including meet and greet the cast.

COUNT your blessings that you have lovely clear water. Featherston’s nasty brackish brew is near enough undrinkable.

‘PROGRESS is man’s ability to complicate simplicity ‘ – Thor Heyerdahl

BEES have to visit two million flowers to collect enough nectar to fill a standard 454gr pot of honey. No wonder the poor little bees are always busy.

OPOTIKI’S MAYOR, John Forbes suggests that his council is functioning so well that there is no need for and election. “ I’ve got a council working really well, so let’s carry on working hard on what’s good for the district” he says.

IF AT FIRST you don’t succeed , remove any evidence that you ever tried.

WHEN THE government spends more, the public spends less. Public works are not accomplished by the miraculous power of a magic wand. They are paid for by funds taken away from the citizens.”– Ludwig von Mises

THE HUMAN brain weighs between 1.3 and 1.4 kilograms. At birth it weighs about 350 grams.

RICE is the world’s most commonly grown food, followed by wheat and then potatoes.

AT SEA THE new cruise liner Harmony of the Sea every hour burns 3,098 litres of the most polluting (100 times worse than road diesel) kind of diesel.

ABOUT FIVE PERCENT of the workforce, a hundred and twenty thousand Kiwis, start work before 6 AM.

ONE OF the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts” – Samuel Johnson

THURSDAY MAY 26th marked ‘Tax Free day’. The equivalent of all the money the average taxpayer earned until that day is how much he/she would pay in taxes for the year. Earnings for the rest of the year are yours! –except for rates that is.

THE DEADLINE for the July issue is 4.30 pm on Wednesday June 29th.