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Royal Easter Show.................18 Apr 2019 - 22 Apr 2019........10am-10pm daily

Brian from New Lynn

Thursday 18 April 2019, 10.00am - Thursday 18 April 2019, 10.00pm
Friday 19 April 2019, 10.00am - Friday 19 April 2019, 10.00pm
Saturday 20 April 2019, 10.00am - Saturday 20 April 2019, 10.00pm
Sunday 21 April 2019, 10.00am - Sunday 21 April 2019, 10.00pm
Monday 22 April 2019, 10.00am - Monday 22 April 2019, 10.00pm
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Where--ASB Showgrounds, 217 Greenlane Road West, Epsom, Auckland
Cost-----Free entry
Contact----ASB Showgrounds
info@asbshowgrounds.co.nz
09 638 9969 or 0800SHOWGROUNDS
Website--eastershow.co.nz
facebook.com/EasterShowNZ
instagram.com/royal.easter.show.nz
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Coinciding with school holidays, this year’s event brings a massive line-up of entertainment, circus acts, FMX shows, Looney Tunes Live Show, carnival rides, sideshows, exhibits, plus an A&P Show that has been running for more than 175 years. The Royal Easter Show has a special place in the hearts and minds of many New Zealanders. The main stage will be jam-packed with all types of exciting FREE entertainment, for the entire family, with world-class acts from TIKI TAANE, JASON KERRISON and LAUGHTON KORA. Mahons Amusements will be returning and bringing their exhilarating rides to the Royal Easter Show, including rides for the whole family and the little ones. An essential feature of the Royal Easter Show, the celebrated Zirka Circus returns with a brand new, never before seen in New Zealand act that will have the audience at the edge of their seats. Their death-defying feats of skill and strength must be seen to be believed. Freestyle New Zealand returns with a show that is sure to astound, demonstrating some of the most dangerous and difficult tricks in FMX sport, bringing a high adrenaline and edge of your seat experience. And stick around for the free fireworks display, lighting up the sky above the ASB Showgrounds Friday, Saturday and Sunday evening’s blasting off at 9pm.
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The Royal Easter Show is New Zealand's largest and most loved family show, an annual must-see for everyone.
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9 hours ago

Why make picking up reserved library books harder? What do you think? Challenge: Write the last stanza for the first poem attached below.

Alan from Titirangi

Once books are reserved in Auckland Libraries books, when they are available no longer go alphabetically by customer but instead go into a Holds pickup shelf number based presumably somehow on when each book needs to be picked up by.

I had two books reserved that arrived on two different days in the Blockhouse Bay Library and hence each book has a different shelf number. Hard to find unless you knew the shelf number in the notification email. Even if you knew the shelf number I found myself three books by the same author on the two shelf numbers.

More recently yesterday a book I reserved was on a different shelf number than was specified in my notification email (see image below).

Sadly it is clear from library staff that a numerical system for reserves is here to stay.

I suggest that so that all books for each person has the same shelf number, the shelf number becomes the last digit of a person's library card (0-9).

Within each shelf number a book is found under the day the reserve arrives in the library (01 to 31, hopefully the same date the email is sent).

Since a customer appears to have 10 days to pick up a book, ten days of the month would appear to be required at any time (for each digit 0-9).

Once there are 10 days used the next day's reserves could go back at the beginning of the shelf number after any remaining books not collected (hopefully none) are removed (along with the old day number and the new day number (01 to 31) inserted) after the last day available and future days' books remaining moved forward to make room.

Each day number (01-31) would appear once for each shelf number (0-9) before the first book on that day- perhaps cover an old withdrawn book with paper with each day number on the spine?

When a reserved book arrives in the library the last digit of the library card could be placed on a piece of paper in the book to be removed when it is put on the shelf, to be recycled the next day.

What do you think?

See the image below and page 3 below for a letter appearing in the Western Leader on 9 September:
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