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CHILLS OFF Acknowledge and appreciate the generous support of the following sponsors: Dowmans Four Sqaure Peach Cornwall & Partners Waimarino Livestock Price's Raetihi Pharmacy McLeans Bookshop Ritz Tearooms Barrett & Taura Transport Wellington Cafe Bennetts Furnishings Fredericksens IGA Foodmarket Images Hair Salon OPTOMETRIST R.G. Halifax, Taumarunui visits Raetihi each month. NEXT VISIT Thursday, Jan 25 For appointments contact Price's Pharmacy Phone 54-314 RUAPEHU COMPUTERS For home or business computers and accessories 30 Ruapehu Road Phone John or Sue 58489 TANGIWAI DISASTER MEMORIAL SERVICE Ruapehu Lions would like to invite the public to a short memorial service on Christmas Eve at the Memorial at Tangiwai in memory of those who died. Bring a candle or torch. Time: 10.30pm December 24 1989. w&mmiL&m'tim Houses, Sheds, Roofs, Fences, Concrete Phone Geoff Gillett on 58-472 WEBBER & HARDEY OPTOMETRISTS Mr Hardey's next Ohakune visit December 20th for appointments Phone 58-304 Ohakune Photo Pharmacy RAETIHI SCHOQL Part-time teacher positions available for 1990. Accommodation offered. Please phone the Principal 54-402 or 54-895 for details. SEWING WORK AT HOME We pay up to $443.94 weekly. You make Kites! For details send $2 & SAE to: C /- LIFESTYLE, BOX 331183 AUCKLAND

'"""npcsr i Housing § 1 §JS Corporation ■jkTJ HOUSING CORPORATION OF NEW ZEALAND Staff will be in attendance at the Ohakune Dental Centre, 18 Goldfinch Street, Ohakune, to assist existing and future clients with their housing inquiries. Hours of attendance - Ohakune 3rd Monday of every month. 10 am- 1pm WANGANUI OFFICE 236 Victoria Avenue PO Box 4025 C2T Commodore COMPUTER Commodore 64 Amiga 500 Commodore PC's (IBM compatible) from RUAPEHU COMPUTERS Phone (Ohakune) 58-489 felf# RUAPEHU DISTRICT COUNCIL TENDERS Tenders are invited for grass harvesting rights - (zero grazing) Taringamotu Airfield - Area 22 hectares Copies of the Tender documents are available at: Ruapehu District Council Manuaute Street Office TAUMARUNUI Tenders close at 4.00pm on Friday 22nd December 1989. CHRISTMAS CLOSURE The Council Offices will close at 5.00pm on Friday the 22nd of December 1989 and will reopen on Wednesday 3rd January 1990. Libraries will close at their usual time on Friday 22nd December 1989 and will reopen on Wednesday 3rd January 1990. Emergency contact phone numbers during the period of closure are: ROADING, WATER, SEWERAGE: Ohura Ward: Grant Fraser (0812) 6875 Taumarunui & National Park Wards; Charlie Ralph (0812) 57-105 Kevin Hillman (0812) 7682 Waimarino & Waiouru Wards: Steve Herewini (0658) 58-981 Don Sattler (0658) 54-282 DOG CONTROL: Ohura. Taumarunui & National Park Wards: Eddie Prescott (0812) 56-985 Stan Dulieu (0812) 56-443 Waimarino & Waiouru Wards: Alan Snowball (0658) 58-844 NOISE COMPLAINTS: Kali Gounder (0812) 55-241 Should you have any difficulty in contacting the approiate person please contact another person from the above list who is responsible for that service in another Ward. cliff houston gfnfralmanaqfr

LEGAL OFFICES OF HARRIS TANSEY & HARVEY RAETIHI & OHAKUNE Will close for the Christmas vacation at 5.00pm on Friday, 22 December 1989 and re-open at 8.30am Tuesday, 16 January 1990. Godfrey, Duncan & Staff wish all Clients a Merry Christmas & Prosperous New Year. NO MILK DELIVERIES XMAS OR NEW YEARS DAY Merry Xmas & Happy New Year to all my clients. John Triggell Milk Vendor OHAKUNE - heopeningof I a New World A district history by Merrilyn George A limited edition of 1000 copies SPECIAL PRE PUBLICATION PRICE $39.95 (post & handling if required) $5.00 Money must accompany order and be received by 27 April 1990. From 28 April 1990 price $45.00. Orders to: Kapai Enterprises Box 84 Ohakune or59 Miro Street. AMIGA 500 from RUAPEHU COMPUTERS Phone (Ohakune) 58489 WAIOURU AGI Junior Saies Assistant Required The position will become available in the new year for a junior assistant in the furniture, manchester, home applicances, audio & T.V. department of our operation. Applicants would need to be of a pleasant disposition and have at least three years Secondary education and preferably have gained School Certificate, or Sixth Form Certificate. The work will include some heavy lifting. Some knowledge of audio & TV technology would be an advantage. Applicants apply with references to: The Manager AGI Waiouru Phone 56-518 or 56-111 extn 7700. r~Movies~ Kings Theatre - Ohakune 24 Hour ^-517^^ Friday 22nd December also Raetihi Theatre Friday 22nd December 5pm Films during January school break "Christmas Vacation" GY "Back to the Future No 2" GY Ghostbusters No 2" GY "Young Einstein"

RAETIHI $64,000 o.n.o Three double bedrooms plus offic© and sewing room. Carpeted throughout. Drapes and light fittings. Kent heater in lounge. Rayburn wetback stove in kitchen/dining area., Separate laundry. Ideal family home on quarter acre section. Carport. Lockable tool shed. Recently painted. Phone (0812) 6090 THE PAGAN ORIGIN OF CHRISTMAS Within the Christian Church no such festival as Christmas was ever heard of until the third century, and it was not until the fourth century that this celebration and its associated customs crept into the Church. 25TH DECEMBER Any good encyclopeadia will reveal that Christ's birth was not on 25th December, but rather this is the date of - birth of the pagan sun god ( Tammuz - also variously worshipped as Mithras, Baal, Horus, Osiris, Sol, etc.). This celebration originated after the Great Flood under the command of Semiramis, Queen of Babylon, Nimrod, the son of Semiramis, was the builder and king of Babylon, the first of the 'deified' mortals. He married Semiramis (his own mother) and made her Queen of Babylon. However, when the godfearing men heard of this abomination, one of them (reportedly Shem, the son of Noah) killed Nimrod and severed his body, . sending portions to the cities of Babylon as a warning against such wickedness. Semiramis, fearful of losing her position as Queen of Babylon, proclaimed herself to be goddess (Queen of Heaven) and renamed her dead husband/son 'Baal', the sun god, demanding that he be worshipped. Thus she sidestepped shame and won the adoration of the idolatrous Babylonians. Semiramis then got herself pregnant, still claiming to be a virgin, and gave birth to a son whom she named 'Tammuz', saying that Nimrod (Baal) had been reincarnated. She ordered that the birthday of Tammuz be celebrated by all and set the date as 25th December on the advice of her astrologers who informed her that the sun would be at its furtherest point from the earth during winter solstice. It was then proclaimed that on the 21st December, the sun (Nimrod/Baal) dies; on the 24th he starts coming to life again, and the 25th is his birthday. THE CHRISTMAS TREE Originally all of this was remembered symbolically ■ using what is now known as the yule-log and the Christmas tree. The yule-log (put in the fire on the eve before the birthday of the sun) was Nimrod - a tree cut down, stripped of its branches and severed into portions, that burned through the night and on the 25th appeared as the evergreen tree - (Tammuz, the reincarnation of Nimrod) laden with ball decorations symbolising the sun and gifts, as it was said he (the sun god) was the bringer of divine gifts to all men. This custom was thoroughly denounced in the Bible by the prophet Jeremiah (Chapter 10: 2-4). JESUS' BIRTH From the Scriptures, we can see that Christ's birth was not in December at all. Luke 1 : 24-28 shows that Mary conceived when Elizabeth was six months pregnant (with John the Baptist). Elizabeth's husband Zacharias was a priest of the course of Abia (Luke 1 :5). There were 24 courses, each working one week at a time beginning and ending on a Sabbath (1 Chron. 24, 2 Chron. 23:8). The course of Abijah was the eighth (1 Chron. 24:10). The first course performed its duties on the first week of the first month of the Hebrew calendar (Abib, also called Nissan). The second course worked the second week, all 24 worked the third week (annual festival of Passover) due to extra load of duties, fourth course worked the fifth week, eighth course worked the ninth week, and all 24 worked the tenth week (annual feast of Pentecost). During that two-week service of the eighth course, Zacharias was visited by the Angel Gabriel (Luke 1 : 8-20). After his service Zacharis went home, Elizabeth conceived (June/July according to our calendar). John would have been born nine months later in March/April, Jesus six months later in September/October - before the first rains came, which accounts for the fact that the shepherds were still in the fields watching the sheep by night (Luke 2:8). The sheep were always brought in from the fields before the end of October. TRUE CELEBRATION The exact date of Christ's birth was not recorded in the Scriptures, nor reffered to by the Apostles and we are nowhere instructed to observe it. Why? Because God intends us to observe Jesus' death by The Lord's Supper (1 Cor. 11: 23-26), remembering His atoning death on Calvary for us. Remembering Jesus' birth does us no good and is not accepted by God, but remembering His death is obedient to His command, and proves our love to Him. JOhn 15:14: "Ye are my friends of ye do what I command you.' The Watchman, Waiouru