Maungawhare

Maungawhare
Photographed: 2000
Built: 1878
Location: Otumoetai, Tauranga.

"Maungawhare" built in 1878, still stands on a ridge at Otumoetai
not far from "Woodhill", in Parkvale Road off
Grange Road. The grounds are open every day
except Wednesday and Public Holidays.

Cornish Pumphouse

Cornish Pumphouse
Photographed: 2005
Built: 1901
Location: Waihi.

This concrete pumphouse is the only building from the old-time mining to remain on Martha Hill, scene of the richest goldmine in New Zealand, 1890 - 1953.

It pumped a continuous 75,000 gallons (or 328,750 litres) per hour.

Pumped

HogSNOREtrupert

She lay on the floor inside my room
In a moonless, midnight-darkened gloom
Sound richocheted like a sonic boom
For there snored Fatima

Grunting, she rolled on her side
Her cave-like mouth sagged open wide
With room for three tennis balls to hide
I was in awe of Fatima

I sent her packing out the door
She settled on the hallway floor
And then snored louder than before
Thick as a board is Fatima

She has her own strange, spoken word
Grunt of Pig X Chirp of Bird
The like of which I'd never heard
Until I met Fatima

Deb sez that nothing is amiss
And she will soon grow out of this
Then I'll trip over her, going for a piss
If no more snores Fatima

Un PC on the PC

A Kiwi, an Aussie and a South African are in a bar one night, having a beer. All of a sudden the South African downs his beer,throws his glass in the air, pulls out a gun and shoots the glass to pieces and says, "In Sath Efrika our glasses are so cheap that we don't need to drink from same one twice".

The Aussie, obviously impressed by this drinks his beer, throws his glass into the air, pulls out his gun and shoots the glass to pieces and says, "Well mate, in 'straaaaaaailia we have so much sand to make the glasses that we don't need to drink out of the same glass twice either."

The Kiwi, cool as a cucumber, picks up his beer and drinks it, throws his glass into the air, pulls out his gun and shoots the South African and the Australian and says "In New Zealand we have so many f***ing South Africans and Australians that we don't need to drink with the same ones twice."