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2. Whereabouts did Abel Tasman land in New Zealand? 3. What is the name of the island on which the Statue of Liberty ii erected? 4. What are the names of the two satellites of Mars? Answers to Saturday’s questions:— (1) Mr. Malcolm Fraser, 0.8. E., Govt. Statistician. (2) The slanting rays one sometimes sees coming from the sun in the evening are Maui *s ropes—the ropes with which Maui the Hero, son of Taranga, stayed the sun in its course by snaring it at the edge of the world, that it might travel more slowly and thus lengthen the hours of light to man. (3) New Zealand’s first railway line was between Christchurch and Ferrymead Junction, and was opened on December Ist, 1863. (4) Quotations: “He that is down, etc., by John Bunyan; “The mountains look on Marathon,” by Lord Byron; “So passed the strong, heroic soul,” by Lord Tennyson.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 206, 15 August 1927, Page 4
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197Do You Know ? Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 206, 15 August 1927, Page 4
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