THE MBA RUGBY CLUB’S SENIOR prize giving is now on the 20th October with the legendary Billy Graham as their guest speaker. To be held at the clubrooms from 7pm with a DJ and light supper provided $10 cover charge
THAT THE TUTURUMURI SCHOOL senior class’ sausage sizzle raised $89 for the Cancer society. And KAHUTARA SCHOOL raised $170 for the Society’s Daffodil day.
JAMES BOND CREATOR Ian Fleming died on October 12th 1964.
PUKEMANU IDOL WINNERS WERE Ist. equal Pip Maynard and Tanya Warren 2nd Melanie Maynard
QUEEN ELIZABETH’S first radio broadcast was made as a fourteen year old on the 13th October 1940. Her message was a moral boosting one to the children of Britain in those dark days.
ENGLISH HUMOURIST DENIS NORDON: ‘It’s a funny kind of month October. For the really keen cricket fan it’s when you discover that your wife left you in May’.
THE AIRSHIP GRAF ZEPPELIN flying from Germany landed at New Jersey on Oct 15th 1928 having made the first crossing of the Atlantic by airship.
JUNK MAIL IN NZ is an eighty million dollar a year industry controlled by two major distributors and ‘employing’ over a thousand letter box stuffers.
A SECRET is something you tell one person at a time
THE WORLD HEAVED A SIGH OF RELIEF on October 28th 1962 with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev’s announcement that Soviet missiles in Cuba would be shipped back to Russia. Backing down on his potentially nuclear war standoff with President John Kennedy.
THE UBIQUITOUS ZIP was invented by Gideon Sundbach in 1917. Today most zips are produced by the firm YKK which has 206 factories in 52 countries producing 2,000 kilometres of zips every day.
THE RECENTLY DECEASED REV SUN MYUNG MOON presided over his biggest mass wedding ceremony of followers on October 30th 1988 when 13,000 Moonies gathered before him at Yongin South Korea.
WHEN TEMPTED TO fight fire with fire remember that the Fire Brigade usually uses water.
THE 5 KILOBYTES RANDOM MEMORY in von Neumann’s original computer which cost $100,000 1947 US dollars, today costs 1hundreths of a cent and cycles 1,000 times faster
INDIA’S PRIME MIMISTER INDIRA GHANDI was assassinate on October 31st 1984 by her Sikh body guards as she walked in the garden of her New Delhi home.
IF THE 3 BILLION letters in the human genome were stacked one millimetre apart they would form a pile 7,000 times higher than the Empire State Building.
