Michael from Northcote writes: "I'm not into numerology so someone else will have to work out if there is anything more than elegance in the fact that Ed Hillary, with ll in the middle of his name, died on the 11th, at the age of 88, 55 years after he became a hero aged 33. Add his age when we were introduced to him, to his age when we said goodbye and we get 33 + 88 = 121 which is 11 x 11. Clearly the state funeral had to be scheduled on the 22nd at 11am. Also on the subject of Sir Edmund, Ray remembers: "A life-sized statue of Sir Ed Hillary was erected in Hillary Square in Orewa in the early 1980s and someone asked via the local Rodney newspaper why Sir Ed was facing the nearby dairy.
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