Miss Currie called us in to the library at morning tea. We thought she was going to tell us to glue together some of the copies of the newspaper that had come apart.

When she told us we had won, everybody cheered! Some people didn't believe her!

Four lucky sub-editers out of twelve that had made the Puhinui Press got the chance to go to the Ellerslie Press and to get the special prize.

The Ellerslie Press is where they print the New Zealand Herald. First of all we went to the room where the programmed robots stack the big rolls of paper. The robots had a semi plastic cover on the bottom and if you kick it, it will stop for a little while. The programmed robots run on certain tracks. If one of the robots break down it will effect all of the robots.

The guide told us that one roll of paper weighs one tonne and if you drop it, it will explode!! He also said that one roll of paper can reach the moon if it is unrolled.

One of the paper rolls cost one thousand dollars. One roll of paper prints thirty three thousand newspapers.

All the papers went to their destination by traveling on a machine on the ceiling.

The newspapers have to start to be printed at eleven at night.

Next we went to the room where it had yellow lights. That is where they make the plates just like this.

The negatives are put into a machine where it makes the plates. The machine would scan the bar code and the cameras would read the writing with the little targets on the sides on the negatives. Then the negatives get squashed on to the plates and then get bent on the sides.

We went to the people who checked the four colours if they didn't smudged. So every one minute or so they would check the paper if the colours were right.

They had a button that if you press it a newspaper comes down so you can check the colours.

After a while we went upstairs and got to see where all the coloured ink got pressed on the newspapers.

Then we went to the prize giving. At the Waipuna Lodge we got to look at all the newspapers that the winning schools made. They also showed all the newspapers on the overhead projector.

When they started the ceremony Gavin Ellis (the Herald editor) said a speech and then he introduced the sponsors and they gave the cheques to the winning schools.

The sponsor that gave the prize to Puhinui was Mercury Energy. When our sponsor from Mercury Energy came to present the cheque we were so nervous our legs were shaking hard.We were the third school to get the prize of five thousand dollars.

After the prizes we had a banquet. There was sweet and savoury food, and fruit juice to drink. Mitul had 15 little quiches!

Then we had more photos taken with the sponsors and the Herald people. At 4.30, we went home again.

It was an amazing day. We were very lucky to have our names pulled out of a hat.

The next day, we sent an email to Mrs Luke in Japan, and to Ritik in Australia, to tell them all about it.