Taonga

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Find the golf ball. There is a mini putt course down by the stream. It was a hard job finding golf balls to play though. They were hidden in the darndest places! The steam train. Sign in to see full entry.

From the cactus garden. View from the road. The plain you are looking across is the inside of a volcano and the mountain in the distance the central plug of that volcano. Tropical Fruit World is on the sea side of the volcano's slopes. Note: Highway bottom right to get a sense of scale. Sign in to see full entry.

To my regular readers - sorry for taking so long with the results. It’s been a busy week. Last Thursday I had a tooth crowned. I’m only just recovering from all the puilling, prying and poking done to my jaw. At least the swelling has gone down. Meanwhile, on the same day, my brother was fired from... Sign in to see full entry.

November, 1915 11 Wednesday: The War Council is reconstituted as the War Committee. Curzon and Churchill are excluded from its deliberations. 12-14 Kitchener inspects Gallipoli. 13 Friday: Sir Charles Munro had been ordered to investigate an attack on Alexandretta and he finds himself in agreement... Sign in to see full entry.

This is an unpaid for commercial. I am reproducing it exactly as I saw it in “The Aucklander” (West Auckland edition, 6 Nov. 2008). Candyland Established for over 15 years, this Waikato tourist icon is for sale. 76 year old owner retiring but will stay on for up to a year with new Owners. Easily run... Sign in to see full entry.

And so we come to today’s election and the end of this series. Here is the rundown of the minor Partys. PROGRESSIVE: In the eighties, when Labour went all undies-up-to-the-naval, suit’n’tie, greed-is-good, Jim Anderton went feral and split from them. Because he is not a meglomaniac, like Winston... Sign in to see full entry.

November, 1915 1 Sunday: NZer, Alexander Aitken writes of his compatriots taking R&R on Lemnos: " They resembled in some aspects the survivors of an earthquake." The destroyer "Louis" is blown ashore at Suvla during a gale and breaks in half. 2 Monday: "... we made out the black mass and ridgy back... Sign in to see full entry.

Director: Marjane Satrapi A French animated film based on a graphic autobiographical novel about growing up in Iran during the revolution and the war with Iraq. The visual style closely apes the graphic novel. The theme of the story is about feeling out of synch with the society in which one finds... Sign in to see full entry.

Don’t be fooled - Labour and National are just different sides of the same face. One looks introspectively and the other xternally. National will NOT reverse the abuses of Labour but extend these new powers. We can expect Labour to do the same if it retains its hold on the nation’s finances. All... Sign in to see full entry.