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ENCOURAGED BY an annual $23 million dollar advertising campaign Kiwis spend $1.5 billion a year on Lotto tickets. Only 25% of the dollars ‘invested’ actually end up supporting good causes , the rest is swallowed up in the advertising and running costs. A ticket’s chance of winning Powerball is estimated to be one in 38 million.
ONLY THE FRENCH could come up with such a name as the National Interprofessional Union of Transformed Vegetables (Unilet) for a trade group. This is the name chosen for the horticulturists group who produce vegetables for the French freezing and canning industries.
GOOD JUDGMENT comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment Rita Mae Brown
AL CAPONE the notorious Chicago gangster who dominated American organized crime for six years including the infamous Valentine Days massacre all the time outsmarting the American legal system. On October 24 th 1931 The law finally made charges stick when he was jailed for eleven years – for Tax evasion.
WELLINGTON’S ATHLETIC PARK hosted the first All Blacks test match played in New Zealand in 1904. The opponent was the British Isles, forerunner to the Lions. The following year, Dunedin’s Tahuna Park hosted the All Blacks’ second test, against Australia. By 1908, Carisbrook was in play and hosted a return trip by the British Isles, with the Auckland test match on that tour being hosted at Potter’s Paddock (in the area now containing Alexandra Park and Greenlane Hospital).
A NINTY EIGHT -year-old man sets another record for being the oldest graduate in Italy, he now plans to write a novel – World News
‘MONEY does not make you happy, but it quiets the nerves’ Sean O’Casey
REMOVING MASKS before we have made indoor settings safer by improving ventilation and air cleaning, just because case numbers are low now, is like removing the tarpaulin over the leaky roof, just because it is not raining now, rather than waiting until the roof has been repaired,” Emily Harvey, co-lead of the Modelling Aotearoa Contagion Covid-19 Network modelling programme ‘YOU DON’T learn until you make a mistake – you have to make mistakes’. Simon Coley ‘All Good’ oat milk maker and exporter.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER courtier, diplomat, civil servant, poet and teller of tales, died at his home in the Garden of Westminster Abbey on 25th October 1400
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