Did you know

THE SOUTH WAIRARAPA PONY CLUB, thanks P&K Mitre 10 for donating material to re-roof their Martinborough club rooms.

A RESEARCH NZ survey found that 56% of respondents favoured compulsory voting with 42% opposed (only 2% undecided).

FIDEL CASTRO nationalised all private businesses in Cuba on February 1960

CROSSWORD PUZZLES have now been frustrating people for one hundred years. The first puzzle was compiled by Arthur Wynne of Liverpool in December 1913. (creating a crossword is called cruciverbalism, I’m sure that you are pleased to no that).

EXERCISE relieves stress – nothing relieves exercise.

PENICILLIN was used for the first time on February 13th 1941. The patient was a London policeman.

FOR NINE out of the last ten years the NZ Rodeo Champion has been a member of the Church family – variously Dion, Clarry, Daryl, Corey, and Rex taking out the title.

AMERICA’S GRAND CANYON has been scoured out by the Colorado river over the last six million years. Rock at the bottom of the canyon is two billion years old.

2014 IS 30 YEARS since the introduction of the Apple Mac computer. At the time Michael Dell, of Dell computers, said;” these computers are so bad that they should give everybody their money back”

A SIGNATURE always reveals a man’s character – and sometimes his name

THE FIRST cargo of frozen meat to England left New Zealand on the ship Dunedin on 15th February 1882

THERE ARE 1.3 BILLION cubic km of water on earth, and there will never be any more. Most arrived 3.8 billion years ago. So any glass you drink is 3.8 billion years old

THERE ARE only three English words in the Oxford dictionary starting with dw – dwarf, dwell and dwindle.

IN FEBRUARY 1972 Volkswagen Beetle overtook the Model T Ford as the biggest selling car model of all time.

EVERY YEAR there is three times as much rubbish dumped into the sea as there is fish taken out.

AN INTELLECTUAL is a man who takes more words than are necessary to tell more than he knows.

THE JAPANESE air force began the bombing of Darwin on February 19th 1942.

IF YOU DON’T learn to laugh at trouble you won’t have anything to laugh at when you get old.