A Little Bit of Everything...

THIS morning the All Blacks get ready to face Munster - the only Irish team to have ever beaten the All Blacks.
The match commemorates the Irish province's most famous win against the All Blacks 30 years ago, when New Zealand was beaten 12-0 after two dropped goals and a conversion of Chris Cantillon's try by Tony Ward.
This victory has inspired a play and at least one book.
Today Munster will field a different team in the fact that there will be Kiwis on their side. These include Doug Howlett and Rua Tipoki and ex-Stratford Rugby Club's Liefeimi Mafi.
Other Taranaki players will feature in the game, with Jason Eaton back in Black and making his All Black debut - Scott Waldrom.
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Looking back&
(Stratford Press, April 12, 1978)
Eltham winter show
The Eltham Winter Show is to be held from the 12-17 June in the Eltham Town Hall. There has been a good response from business firms throughout Taranaki. Up to now 21, have offered to have stalls to exhibit their goods.
Evening entertainment has also been arranged. On Friday and Saturday two hour programmes will be staged by the 60 strong Marton Maori Cultural Group whose members range from the age of 2 years to 18 years. This group will also be entertaining school children during the afternoon.
The Eltham Savage Club and the new Eltham Maori Culture Group will also be entertaining on other nights.
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Did you know?
" According to legend, rugby was created at Rugby School when, during a footie game in 1823, a pupil named William Webb Ellis suddenly picked up the ball and started running with it. Sadly, there's no evidence to back this up. It's almost certain that the game actually evolved slowly as different generations of pupils tinkered with the rules of football
" The oldest rugby club in the world is Dublin University Football Club. Founded in 1854, it is also happens to predate the first ever soccer club, Sheffield FC, by three years
" Rugby balls are shaped the way they are because the original balls, made by a cobbler near Rugby School, were fashioned from pigs' bladders. These bladders naturally became oval-shaped when inflated a grisly process which literally involved blowing into them like balloons
" The United States are the world's reigning rugby champions - when it comes to the Olympics, anyway. The US rugby team took the gold medal when the game was last played at the Olympics back in 1924. Rugby was dropped from the tournament after that, but there's a growing campaign to make it an Olympic sport again
" A 'try' is so-called because the act of running over the line and touching the ball down originally carried no points and merely allowed the team to try for a kick at the goal. The rules were eventually changed to make trys, rather than goals, the best way to score points
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Children's Science Exam
Q: What causes the tides in the oceans?
A: The tides are a fight between the Earth and the Moon. All water tends to flow towards the moon, because there is no water on the moon, and nature hates a vacuum. I forget where the sun joins in this fight.
Q: What are steroids?
A: Things for keeping carpets still on the stairs.
Q: What happens to your body as you age?
A: When you get old, so do your bowels and you get intercontinental.
Q: What happens to a boy when he reaches puberty?
A: He says good-bye to his boyhood and looks forward to his adultery.