THE WINNERS of the Kindergarten Easter Raffle were: 1st Bev Dobson
2nd Sally @ SWDC
AUCKLAND’S population density is 2, 400 per sq km. By comparison Brisbane’s is 1,000, Melbourne’s 1.6000 , Sydney’s 2,100 – and South Wairarapa 3.7. Count your blessings.
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND new orange traffic cones are imported into New Zealand (from China) every year.
WALTER HUNT invented the first machine to mass produce nails and rivets, he also designed the safety pin – and sold the rights or $400.
TEGEL PROCESS forty million chickens a year and Inghams twenty million –which equates to fifteen chickens a year for every person in NZ. I’m certainly not eating my share.
NICK FALDO became the first Briton to win the U>s> Masters Golf tournament on 10th April 1989
‘THE STUPID neither forgive nor forget, the naïve forgive and forget , the wise forgive but do not forget’ – Thomas Szasz.
THERE ARE 140 TRILLION cells in the human body. Starting with a single cell which divides to give two cells it would take only 47 doublings to arrive at this figure.
BEER PRODUCTION in 1973 was 181 ltr. per adult. Last year it was 79Ltr. Contrary to popular perception production of other alcoholic products was also down.
‘THE FUTURE is much like the present , only longer’ – Dan Quisenberry.
FOLLOWING A DISAGREEMENT with his President WW2 hero General Douglas McArthur was stripped of all his commands by an irate President Harry Truman on 11th April 1951.
IN THE 1960s 500 species of bacteria had been named currently the figure is around 8,300.
THE U.S. PATENT OFFICE was set up by Thomas Jefferson in 1790. Only three patents were registered in that year patent the first for a way of making potash.
SYDNEY POITIER was the first Black actor to be a awarded and Oscar. This on April 13th 1964 for his performance in the film ‘The Lilies of the Field’.
THE WORD DEADLINE was first used in US military prisons. There was a line encircling the jail, and if inmates crossed it they would be shot. (thanks to Maree Roy for this info).
STAR DOES NOT shoot people who miss deadlines, however we can not promise of space for late arriving copy
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