EAGLE EYED readers will have noticed that the person in the Museum photo in last month’s Star was Derek Wilson not Mate Higginson as captioned. Apologies Derek.
VINTAGE, up-cyled and craft goods from all over the lower North Island will be on sale at the Mid Winter Vintage Fair. Town Hall Saturday 11th July 10 am- 3 pm. Profits to the Waihinga Charitable Trust for the Town Hall and Community Centre project.
AUCKLAND rates up by over 9%, aren’t you glad we aren’t being lumped in with a super city? The further removed councillors are from their constituents the less compunction they have about raising their rates.
SUBSIDY cheques from Brussels make up 68% of British farmer’s incomes.
THE WORLD’S tallest building is Burj Kahalifa in Dubai which is 828 metres high. At 160 storeys it is more than twice as high as the Empire State Building in New york.
COMMON sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by the age of eighteen –Albert Einstein
PARLIAMENT’S Speaker, David Carter only ejected two members from the Debating Chamber last year. A far cry from 2007 when thirty one were ejected Between them Winston Peters and Trevor Mallard accounted for fifteen of these ejections.
“WHAT IS the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector?? The taxidermist takes only your skin.” – Mark Twain.
THE SUEZ CANAL was nationalized by Egypt’s President Nasser on July26th 1956
HOKEY POKEY was patented by Dunedin man William Hatton in 1896. Another great NZ invention.
CONTARY to public perception book sales are buoyant. While New Zealand sales dropped from $140 million to $115 million between 2009 and 2013, much of the drop was covered by direct importing. A bounced back 5% increase in local book sales was recorded in 2014.
SIR THOMAS Stamford Raffles, the founder of Singapore, died in London on July 4th 1826
THE FOOTPRINT of the Great Pyramid of Cheops covers 5¼ hectares. It would be possible to place St Peter’s Church in Rome, London’s Westminster Abbey and St Paul’s Cathedral and the cathedrals of Milan and Florence in the same area.
MARTINA NAVRATILOVA made history on 7th July 1990 by winning the Wimbledon tennis title for the ninth time.
THE DIFFERENECE between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits – Alexander Dumas
