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■ One cannot always mitigate all risk, but manage it.

■ Interesting to note prices of rubbish bags. In South Taranaki, households are provided with 1 year’s worth of bags free, so a resident tells me! No wonder people fly tip their rubbish.

■ Dear greenies, how about a bike

to office/factory/school day instead of a mufti day? Jack

■ Come on city council you have a lovely park in Apollo Parade but what about public toilets and rubbish bins? A resident from Apollo Parade

■ Dear editor. When will you get an unbiased cartoonist? We are all sick of him making fun of National and having nothing on Labour. Bring Tremain back. We already have

three cartoonists – Editor

■ What the hell do the council spend our rates on? Now putting up prices of rubbish bags. More rubbish around streets.

■ I travel the Levin–Massey road every day. I think it would save the orange road cone workers a lot of work if they marked the road not subject to roadworks with green cones. Everything remaining without cones is road work in

progress.

■ Poor teachers. In my class of std 3 1955, there were 39 students. The teacher managed extremely well. Of course the students had respect in those days. Suck it up and get on with it. LJ

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1. Wadiya is a fictional country ruled by General Aladeen in which 2012 comedy film?

2. Which band, named after a European city, had hits such as ‘‘Metro’’ and ‘‘Take my Breath Away’’?

3. In what year did

Dame Valerie Adams compete in her first Olympic Games?

4. Who is currently 3rd in line to the British Throne?

5. Chennai is the capital of which Indian state?

6. What is the name of Jay Pritchett’s daughter in Modern Family?

7. True or false, snails have teeth?

8. What is the colour of the cross on Sweden’s flag?

9. Norman Quentin Cook is an English DJ better known by what stage name?

10. Which equestrian event is described as ‘‘the highest expression of horse training’’ by the International Federation for Equestrian Sports?

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