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THE TUTRUMURI A&P SHOW will be held on Friday 28th. Not to be missed, see advert in this paper for details.

THE FIRST alcohol breath test was carried out in Somerset England on Oct. 8th 1967.

ONE OF THE PENALTIES of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors – Plato.

THE RANFURLY SHIELED’S longest tenure was Auckland who held it between 1985 and 1983 during which they defended it 61 times.

THREE THOUSAND people lost their lives on Oct 9th 1963 when a rock slide wrecked the Vaiont dam in the Italian Alps.

COFFEE – the one on whom one coughs.

On Oct 10th 1973 Richard Nixon’s deputy , Spiro Agnew, also fell from grace being convicted of tax fraud and accepting contract bribes.

SINCE 2008 Sonny Bill Williams has played for Sydney Bulldogs, Toulon (France), Canterbury /Crusaders, The Chiefs, Panasonic Wild Knights (Japan) and the Sydney Roosters.

SOME CAUSE HAPPINESS where ever they go, others when ever they go – Oscar Wilde.

FREDERIC CHOPIN died of tuberculosis on Oct 17th 1849 – aged just 39.

THE INTEREST on Auckland city’s loans is a million dollars a day. One dollar in every five collected as rates goes to pay interest.

AFTER SINKING 300 million dollars into the De Lorean sports car project the British government pulled the plug on the enterprise on Oct 19th 1982 – with a loss of 1,500 jobs in Belfast. 9,000 cars had been produced of which 6,500 are thought to be still in existence.

THE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE was officially opened on Oct 21st 1973. This after twenty years of wrangling and disputes during which the cost rose from the original seven million to one hundred million dollars.

GARY GAVELICH drove (or maybe more correctly – rode) his rocket propelled car ‘Blue Flame’ at 1,010 kph on the Bonneville Salt Flats on Oct 23rd 1970.

THE GUNFIGHT AT OK CORAL took place at Tombstone Arizona on Oct 26th 1881. Wyatt, Morgan and Virgil Earp along with Doc Holliday lined up against Ike and Billy Clanton, Tom and Frank Mc Lowery and Billy Claiborne. The fight was over within minutes with the Mc Lowery Brothers and Clanton dead.

THE YOEMEN OF THE GUARD were established in Oct 1485 by King Henry the Seventh.

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