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THREE million tons of pesticide are used Globally every year.

IT’S GOOD to keep an open mind, however it shouldn’t be so open that your brains fall out.

IN 1927 NEW YOUR had the world’s greatest traffic congestion. More cars than the whole of Germany plus 50,000 horse drawn vehicles.

1,000 people died in traffic accidents.

LAW OF Mechanical Repair – After your hands become coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch.

POLAND became the first Eastern Block to end one party rule ion 19th August 1989 when the Solidarity Party’s Tadeuz Mazowiecki became Prime Minister.

AUCKLAND hold the record for the most successful Ranfurly Shield defenses (148) Canterbury has 132 defenses and Wellington 40. Wairarapa has successfully defended holding it 10 times.

AS THE CENTENARY of the First World War approaches books and media articles are tending to glorify the conflict. Some sobering statistics: nine million soldiers killed, seven million civilians killed, twenty million soldiers wounded, eight million prisoners of war.

WHILE experimenting in August 1893 Rudolf Diesel’s new motor generated eighty atmospheres, the highest pressure ever recorded before the indicator plate exploded fortunately narrowly missing the 35 year old inventor’s head.

REPORTED aggravated assaults in America are 418 per 100,000 people. The corresponding figure for NZ is 62.

A QANTAS airliner became the first commercial plane to fly non stop from London to Sydney on August 17th 1989.

THE NZ ministry of Agriculture was established in 1892, with Acts regulating the Dairy Industry being passed in the same year and 1894 and the Meat Industry in 1900.

GOVERNMENT SPENDS in excess of seventy million dollars a year on the results of family violence.
THE FORD MODEL T production line commence operation on August 12th 1908.

A FANATIC: a person who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.

THE BEST TIME to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is today – Chinese proverb.

THE WORLD FOOTBAL CUP has been described as ‘the floppiest’ with 293 cases of ‘injury embellishment’ reported resulting in a total of 119 minutes of disrupted playing time.

The deadline for the September is 4pm Wednesday August 27th