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1 Wet wood complaints pile up

2 Patience is key as whitebaiting

season has slow start

3 Nga¯ti Kahungunu ‘fish for South Auckland, small business support and PPE’

4 Napier resident wins $5m in

Saturday’s $50m Lotto draw

5 Silence on the sidelines

Quiz

1 Marble is a common name for

which chemical compound?

2 Which US President won a Nobel

Peace Prize in 2009?

3 Which novel by Margaret Mitchell won the Pulitzer prize for fiction in May 1937?

4 Michael Keaton, Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis starred in which bizarre classic directed by Tim Burton?

5 The UK sitcom Gavin & Stacey was written by Ruth Jones and which other comedian?

History

1838 The first marine expedition sponsored by the US government set sail from Hampton Roads, Virginia; the crews travelled the southern Pacific Ocean, gathering scientific information.

1914 President Woodrow Wilson issued his Proclamation of Neutrality, aimed at keeping the United States out of World War I.

1963 James Meredith became the first black student to graduate from the University of Mississippi.

1969, The Woodstock Music and Art Fair in Bethel, New York, wound to a close after three nights with a midmorning set by Jimi Hendrix.

1983 Hurricane Alicia slammed into the Texas coast, leaving 21 dead and causing more than a billion dollars’ worth of damage.

1993 A judge ruled that Kimberly Mays, the 14-year-old girl who had been switched at birth with another baby, need never again see her biological parents, Ernest and Regina Twigg, in accordance with her stated wishes. (However, Kimberly later moved in with the Twiggs.)

2009 Former South Korean President and Nobel Peace laureate Kim Dae-jung died in Seoul.

Birthdays

● Actor-director Robert Redford is 84

● Rhythm-andblues singer Sarah Dash (LaBelle) is 75

● Actor Madeleine Stowe is 62.

● Rock singermusician Zac Maloy (The Nixons) is 52.

● Actor Christian Slater is 51.

● Actor Maia Mitchell is 27

Quiz Answers

1. Calcium carbonate 2. Barack Obama 3. Gone With the Wind 4. Beetlejuice 5. James Corden

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