AGRECOVERYRural Recycling will be holding free collection events in Martinborough on 14 May to encourage farmers, growers and sports turf managers to recycle agrichemical containers. For info: Duncan Scotland, 3R Group 06 872 7235 or 021 922 540.
MARTINBOROUGH SCHOOL wish to thank all those that attended their Bingo night. The committee is looking for further fundraising opportunities. They would love to hear from anyone needing assistance that they we could help out with as part of their fund raising effort. Please contact them 3069602
THE PUKEMANU Adventure Ride donated $500 to Tuturumuri School as a measure of it’s appreciation of the delicious morning tea the School committee put on for the riders.
THE CENTIMETRE MEASURE was established by the French Revolutionaries being a billionth of the distance from the equator to the North Pole passing through Paris.
THE WORST time to have a heart attack is during a game of charades.
THE VOTING AGE of British women was lowered from 30 to 21 on 7th May 1926.
THE SPEED OF LIGHT is 670,000,000 mph. At that speed you could travel from London to Los Angels in 1/20 th of a second.
NZ HONEY exports are worth $120 million. 90% of which is Manuka honey.
IT IS 6,370km from the earth’s surface to its centre core.
AUSTRALIAN Rules have an annual television rights deal worth $250 million, Rugby League’s is $200 million, however Australian Rugby’s is a comparatively tiny $25 million.
TORPEDOS from a German submarine sunk the neutral transatlantic liner Lusitania with the drowning of 1,200 people and subsequently drawing America into the First World War.
BY PRODUCING 42.7 million hectolitres of wine in 2013 Spain displaced France as the world’s second biggest wine producer. Italy, producing 44 million hectolitres remains the world’s biggest wine producer.
SINCE IT WAS first measured by Carl Friedrich Gauss in 1836 the earth’s magnetic field has been reducing at a rate of 5% a century.
THE EAST and west coast of America were linked by the joining of the two railroads being constructed from each side on May 10th 1869.
WHEN A MAN is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package.
AROUND 50% of the sunlight energy that falls on the top of Earth’s atmosphere reaches the ground where it is absorbed by the and water.
The absolute deadline for the June Star is 4pm Wednesday May 28th.
