Money Doesn't Buy Happiness

Shaun the sheep woke up one cold, icy morning with his whānau in a huddle. They all got up in appreciation as he felt honored to be with his friends and whānau.

Across the ditch was Spike; he woke up in his approved, heavy-duty hay barn. He strolled outside and glanced across the ditch and shouted,"huh, look at those poor, white, fluffy things." Shaun just took no notice of the nasty comment and kept playing the game of basketball.

The next sunny day Spike wanted to have fun and play games with his herd. They asked,"how do we do that?"
"It can't be that hard,"Spike replied. "If  those things over the ditch can, we should be able to too." So the sheep kept having fun and the cows never found out how to have fun.

Moral: money does not buy happiness.

Raymond Fraser Norman

Surname: Norman

Forenames: Raymond Fraser

Rank: flight Sergeant

Serial Number: 416145

War: WW2,1939-1945

Campaign: War with Germany

Date of Death: 30th May 1943

Age at Death: 23 years

Cause of death: Air craft shot down over Germany.

As a boy he went to Winton Primary School. He worked on a local farm and then became a buyer for the Matura Freezing Works. At the outbreak of WW2 he chose the Air Force to serve his country.

Ray Norman trained to be an air force pilot in Canada, he was then sent to the royal air force in Cambridge England where he joined the 75th squadron. On his first bombing assignment over Germany he was co pilot of a Stirling Bomber, his aircraft was hit by enemy fire and started to go down, three of the eight crew members managed to jump clear and parachute to ground to become POW. The aircraft exploded in the air killing the remaining five crew members including Ray Norman. 

His family were informed that he was missing in action because his aircraft had failed to return to base. it was not till five years later that his death was confirmed. His body and that of his comrades had been buried near the crash site by local people, in 1948 their remains were then exhumed and re-interred at a Commonwealth War cemetery in Germany.

About me

Hi my name is Willis. I am 12 years old and I live on a farm at Forest Hill I have four brothers and four sisters. I love to do sports with my friends and family.Kia Ora