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ACCORDING TO Cambridge PhD engineer, Dr Roger Harrison, the chance of winning Lotto is one in 3,838 380. Maybe better spend your money on a bar of chocolate.

THERE ARE 11,645 Foreign Trusts registered in New Zealand and NZ is mentioned 60,000 times in the recently released Panama Papers

‘EVERY MAN is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day: wisdom consist of not exceeding those limits’ – Elbert
Hubbard.

WORLD TRADE in bottled water now exceeds $U.S 107 billion, much of the water comes from New Zealand, generously donated to the bottling companies at no cost.

VANILLA is the second most expensive spice – after saffron. Due to a poor growing season in Tahiti vanilla is in very short supply and the price has double this year

AT ANY GIVEN time there were a million soldiers constructing The Great Wall of China. Even so construction took seventy five years.

ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY million dollars was spent on ice cream in NZ supermarkets last year – an increase of five million on the previous year.

FOURTEEN THOUSAND people walk the Milford track each year. The track has been open for 120 years.
U.S.A’s TRADE DEFICIT with China reached staggering $365 billion last year. Little wonder that Trump and Clinton are not keen on trade deals. New Zealand had a trade credit with China of $3.7 billion in 2014 – the last figures available.

‘IT’S TOUGH to make predictions, especially about the future’ – Yogi Berra

FIGURES FROM the World Bank show that U.S.A. has the highest GDP per capita in the world ($54,629). Followed by Germany( $45,800) and Sweden at $45,183. NZ ($36,390) comes in well down the list, however still ahead of Greece, Portugal and Mexico.

‘IF YOU can keep you head when about you are losing theirs, it’s just possible that you haven’t grasped the situation’ – Jean Kerr.

THE AMERICAN Dept of Energy announced that the country’s carbon emissions reduced by 2% in 2015, to make an overall reduction of 10% over the last 14 years.

THERE ARE 11,645 foreign trusts registered in New Zealand.

YOUR BRAIN is 2% of your body weight but uses 20% of your body’s energy

‘MENTION Fluoride, vaccines or dog control brings out a bunch of local crazies. The paranoid few hold the rest of the politically apathetic populance to ransom’ – Shambeel Eaquib

The deadline for the June issue is 4pm Wednesday the 25th