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Serious injury in workplace accident

2 The Napier man who burned a

house down using cologne

3 Horror road smash: Tangi for parents and five kids to be held in Hawke’s Bay

4 Newly-elected iwi leader Ngahiwi

Tomoana’s last stand

5 Hawke’s Bay Hospital holding up

during strike

Quiz

1 Name the street of Dunedin advertised as the steepest in the world?

2 What was the former name of

Bluff?

3 Which town of South Canterbury

was originally named FitzGerald?

4 In which city will you find the Te

Rapa Racecourse?

5 Who was the popular governorgeneral of New Zealand appointed in 1946?

Joke of the day

Q: What goes up when the rain comes down?

A: An umbrella

Bible quote

The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is good your whole body is full of light. But when your eye is bad, your body also is full of darkness. Luke 11:34.

History

1469: Political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli was born in Florence, Italy.

1948: The US Supreme Court ruled that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks or members of other racial groups were legally unenforceable.

1978: Spam email was born as Gary Thuerk, a marketing executive for the Digital Equipment Corp of Maynard, Massachusetts, transmitted an unsolicited sales pitch for a new line of computers to 400 prospective customers on ARPANET, a precursor to the internet.

1979: Conservative Party leader Margaret Thatcher became Britain’s first female prime minister.

2007: British girl Madeleine McCann vanished during a family vacation in Portugal nine days before her fourth birthday.

Birthdays

● Singer Frankie Valli is 85.

● Singer Christopher Cross is 68.

● Actress Amy Ryan is 51.

● Actress Christina Hendricks is 44.

● Country singer Eric Church is 42.

● Dancer Cheryl Burke is 35.

● Actress Jill Berard is 29.

Quiz Answers

1. Baldwin St. 2. Campbelltown. 3. Geraldine. 4. Hamilton 5. Bernard Freyberg.

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