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THE MATINBOROUGH School’s 150th Jubilee reunion will be held over the weekend of 16th and 17th September. So all you ex pupils mark your calenda for the great even. And please let any former pupils now living elsewhere know that it’s on. A great weekend is promised – not to be missed. 

‘IT TAKES considerable knowledge just to know the extent of your own ignorance’ Thomas Sowell

TEAM NZ’S land yacht is near completion and headed for testing at Whenuapai. The team is seeking to break the current wind-powered land speed record. The current record is held by Richard Jenkins who broke the record in 2009 in a land yacht he called the Ecotricity Greenbird. Team NZ would need to get their land yacht racing faster than Jenkin’s speed of 202.9kmh. Team CEO Grant Dalton said it was a “new challenge, and brings some fun factor to the organisation”.

‘ FRIENDSHIP IS like money easier made than kept.’ Samuel Butler. 

PRIOR TO 1940 it was illegal for women to work in grocery shops. The National Service Regulations  introduced in 1940 to overcome the worker shortage due to men enlisting in the forces overturned the archaic rule, so allowing women to enter the grocery trade. 

‘NORTH KOREA has reported its first coronavirus  outbreak and ordered all cities to enter a lockdown. Or ,as they call it, business as usual’. Seth Myers 

A 2014 VALUATION of all government property valued the Treaty of Waitangi document at forty million dollars. However lenders would not expect it to be sold off in a case of the Crown closing down.  

‘HANNAM SAID that Tyson had since been castrated, was now locked in his kennel, wore a muzzle and was on medication for anxiety’ –Taranaki Daily News

INDONESIA the world’s biggest producer and exporter of palm oil, last month banned the export of the product. Last year it produces 46.2 million tonnes of palm oil accounting for more than 60% of the global supply.

The ban is not aimed at ecological concerns but to reduce the price of cooking oil in the domestic market. However the ban coincides with the loss of global sunflower oil supplies as a result of the conflict in Ukraine and is thus likely to have a further impact on already high cooking oil prices globally.

A few weeks later the Indonesian government announced that the ban decision had been rescinded

The deadline for the July issue is 4pm Wednesday June 29^th