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THE GATE TAKINGS from the Tauherenikau races on March the 26th will go to the Life Flight Helicopter Trust

IN 1880 COAL SEAMS were reported to have been found in a drill shaft near Featherston. The shaft had been said to have gone down four hundred feet.

WHERE ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY years ago it took 25 men a whole day to harvest and thresh a ton of grain, one person with a modern combine harvester can do it in six minutes.

IT IS OBVIOUS that women are smarter than men… diamonds are a girl’s best friend; man’s best friend is a dog.

MARS IS smaller and lighter than earth and its gravity is two fifths of earth’s. Resulting in things aging quicker on Mars. Due to this the surface of Mars is three years older than earth’s.

FATE is like a strange restaurant, filled with odd waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don’t always like – Daniel Handler.

U.S.A. SPENDS 17% of GDP on health, New Zealand spends 11% and UK 9%. However both NZ and UK have better health outcomes including longer life expectancy and fewer chronic conditions.

DOUBT is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one – Voltaire.

THE SUPERSONIC airliner Concorde made it’s maiden flight from Toulouse airport on March 2nd 1969.

ON CHRISTMAS/BOXING DAYS the Life Flight Helicopter responded to a total of fourteen calls.

PERPETUAL MOTION machines are impossible as they violate the second law of thermodynamics. The nearest thing is is a vacuum sealed magnetically levitated flywheel. One of such has been going for 12 years.

“WE MADE the school ‘alcohol free’. Some people asked where the free alcohol was”. Ngati Whatua Oraki Whai Rawa director Ngarimu Blair.

TWENTY EIGHT THOUSAND sea going and one hundred thousand inland working barges used the Netherland port of Rotterdam in 2016 the port handling 461 million metric tonnes of freight.

ON MARCH 3rd 1991 Queen Elizabeth incurred a wound on her finger requiring three stitches. The injury happened as she tried to break up a fight between the Royal Corgis in the grounds of Windsor Castle.

ROBERT MUGABE became the leader of the newly founded Republic Zimbabwe on March 4th 1980. The country had been governed as the British colony of Rhodesia for the previous ninety one years.

The deadline for the April issue is 4 pm Wednesday 29th March.