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A MEMORIAL SERVICE will be held for Heather Marchioni on Thursday, 16th March in the Waihinga Centre at 2 pm. Many thanks to Carol Hawkins for providing the information for the obituary in last month’s Star.
ROUND THE VINES’ date has been changed. This year it will be held on the 4 th Novemember. Which give you more time to get your fitness level up, so no excuses.
DURING JANUARY, the Wellington Free Ambulance service transported 2,996 people to hospitals in the Wellington – Wairarapa area. In 1,432 calls people were treated in their own places. Plus 3,139 patients were transferred between hospitals. All these at no charge; we have the only free ambulance service in New Zealand.
THERE WERE NO Auckland players in in the All Black teams in the four rugby tests between New Zealand and South Africa in the 1965 series. The series was won by New Zealand three games to one.
IN THE EARLY 1900s there were thirty three dairy factories in the Wairarapa. Twelve of which were scattered around the South Wairarapa.
‘A POLITICIAN who complains about the media is like a sailor who complains about the sea’. An old political adage.
THE FIRST measles case was confirmed in New Zealand since the 2019 outbreak . Measles is highly contagious and very serious. The last outbreak had 700 hospitalised. Most were children. The disease was then exported from here to Sāmoa, where it killed more than 70 people, again, mostly children.
‘BE LESS curious about people and more curious about ideas’ – Marie Curie.
‘ THIS KING is too woke to even mention Australia Day. Seemingly ashamed of the day his own country claimed Australia as a colony. So he can hardly complain about missing out on a spot on the $5 note’ – Australian News host Chris Kenny
ON AVERAGE we breath just over 20,000 times a week – about 15 times a minute. Your lungs fill with air without you having to think about it , which is handy because if you had to think about it you wouldn’t have much time for anything else if you had to remember to take 670 million breaths in your lifetime. –221QI answers.
PARENTING ON weekdays is waking up with a headache and thendropping the headache off at school.
The deadline for the April issue of the Star is 4pm Wednesday March 29th
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