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THE MAYNARD TWINS And Wharekaka extension items in the July Star were erroneously attributed to Rachel McMahon. This should have been Rachel McCahon. Apologies Rachel – Mike.

THERE’S ENOUGH in the world for every man’s need but not every man’s greed – Mahatma Ghandi

ONE IN FIVE apples eaten in the world are of a New Zealand developed variety

SCOTTISH SCIENTIST Sir Henry Faulds discovered in 1880 that every set of finger prints was different. Currently the United States authorities have 60 million sets of prints on file.

FORTY SIX PERCENT of voters eligible to be on the Maori Roll opt to be on the General Roll.

THE FIRST TRANSATLANTIC telegraph cable was completed in August 1858. The service was inaugurated with a telephone call between Queen Victoria and President Buchanan.

THW SUN BURNS through matter at a rate of four million tonnes a second – equivalent to a million elephants every second.

AT 8.15 am ON AUGUST 6th 1945 an atomic bomb dubbed ‘Little Boy’ was dropped on Hiroshima from an American B 29 bomber.

LIGHT TRAVELS AT 1,079 km/h covering the distance between the sun and earth in just eight minutes

USING CHILDREN AS ‘CHIMNEY SWEEPS’ became illegal in Britain in August 1840. However a lax enforcement of the law saw the practice continue on for some time.

HAPPINESS IS absorption in something worth while.

PRESIDENT NIXON became the first American president to resign his office when he admitted in August 1974 that he had made errors of judgment which demanded that he stand down.

SARCHASIM: the gulf between the author of a sarcastic remark and the person who doesn’t get it

THE FIRST GIANT PANDA to be born in captivity was delivered safely at a zoo in Mexico on 12th August 1980.

A SOLAR FLARE release energy equivalent to a billion megatonnes of TNT. Enough energy to power the U.S.A. for 100, 000 years.

AN ESTIMATED YOUNG 300,000 PEOPLE turned up at the first three day Woodstock Music Festival held at Bethel New York on 15th August 1969. Performers included Jimi, Hendrix, Joan Baez, Janis Joplin, The Who and Jefferson Airplane.