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THE PUKEMANU Adventure Ride donated $1500 to Tuturumuri School as a measure of it’s appreciation of the delicious morning tea the School committee put on for the riders” – Not $500 that was reported in the May Star?

THE GREAT TORA COOK OFF is on again. Mark your calendar ‘Saturday 5th July’ for another delicious and fun filled event.

ON SUNDAY April 16th 1989 John Houlker, a Waikato University computer programmer, plugged in a net work router to create New Zealand’s first gateway to the internet. An analogue 9.6 kilobit per second connection to a U.S. system called Telnet.

A HUMAN HEART pumps the equivalent of endlessly emptying a bath with a tea cup every fifteen minutes. Expending enough energy to drive a truck 32 kms a day.

RENO NEVADA (the city was named after his father) invented the lift in 1891. It caused a sensation when installed as a ride at Brooklyn’s Coney Island Amusement park

‘POETS HAVE BEEN mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese’ –G K Chesterton.

THE FIRST LANDING by automatic pilot was made by a British Airways de Havilland jet liner flying from Paris to London on June 10th 1965

THE MOST CAPPED English rugby player is J Leonard with 114 caps. Ever heard of him?

RUSSIA’S FIRST ever democratic election was held on June 12th 1991. There were six candidates for the Presidency which was won by Boris Yeltsin.

IF YOU ARE ‘riding ahead of the herd’ take a look back every now and again to make sure that they are still there.

LONDON WAS bombed for the first time by German planes on June 14th 1917.

THE FIRST ball point pen was described as: ‘a non-leaking high altitude writing stick’.

HITLER and Mussolini met for the first time at Venice on June 15th 1934.

MONEY is a bit like snow it tends to gather in heaps.

THE FIRST TWO women to become Anglican priests, Kathleen Young and Irene Templeton , were ordained by the Bishop of Connor at St. Anne’s Cathedral Belfast on 24th June 1990

TELEGRAPH was invented by Joseph Henry who didn’t bother to patent it. Samuel Finlay Breeze Morse was only too happy to steal the invention. Morse’s name live on in the code used.