Ross, who was not charged in relation to the hoax, died of tuberculosis in August 1946. (Va NZHistory.govt.nz)
Cheers to that
A reader writes: "Rob, a farming mate, who lives in and works from his bachelor digs in a remote part of the King Country, got caught out while doing his annual pilgrimage to the South Island. He was in his ute at Winton, just north of Invercargill, when the lockdown was announced. Not one to shy from a challenge, he headed north, driving through the night, and managed to catch one of the heavily over-subscribed ferries to Wellington. He was then faced with a six-hour drive to his home, unprepared and un-provisioned for the lockdown and isolation. And that's when his good mate, Crusty, came to the rescue, offering to include Rob in his King Country bubble. Not only is Rob now assured of good provisions and good company, he's also assured of an endless supply of beer as Crusty just happens to own the pub."
Did you know ...?
1. Malaysia's Karex Bhd makes one in every five condoms globally. It has not produced a single condom from its three Malaysian factories for more than a week because of a lockdown imposed by the Government to halt the spread of the Covid-19. There's already a shortfall of 100 million condoms.
2. When a teenager in Jounieh, Lebanon, realised many people couldn't visit their mum for Mother's Day because of the coronavirus lockdown, he came up with a novel solution: for a small sum he would fly a rose to your mother's home with a drone.
3. A married Secret Service agent had trouble extraditing a hacker from Romania, so he pretended he was a woman, flirted for seven months online, and nabbed the criminal when he flew to Boston with three boxes of grape-flavoured condoms.
4. The Lord of the Rings holds the record for the greatest number of false feet used in a single movie: 60,000.
5. The World Stone Skimming Championships have a category for contestants aged 60 years or more called "Old Tosser".
