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THE HARDEST thing about a political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning –Adlai Stevenson
WAIRARAPA PLOUGHING Association’s Annual Match will be held at 117 Gladstone Road Carterton on 2nd Oct Admission:  Gold Coin. Ploughing commences at 10.30 .a.m.
U.K. COMPANY Cello Electronics has produced the world’s first solar powered TV. A full charged LED battery will give the 22 inch set ten hours of viewing time. TV on the beach!
BEING IN politics is like being a rugby coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it’s important.
2016 WILL BE a fraction longer than other years. As well as having a 29th February an extra second will be added at midnight on 31st December.

WAIRARAPA has twenty six women police officers.
THER IS NOT the slightest indication that nuclear energy will eve be obtainable – Albert Einstein
THERE IS MUCH that shows the best size for a board is from five to nine members. Fewer than five means you may not get a strong enough exchange of views. More than nine and it gets fragmented, and the risk is a sub-set of the board start making the real decisions.
PARKING in Auckland twenty dollars an hour. In Palmerston North one dollar fifty. In South Wairarapa free.
IF YOU don’t drink, smoke or drive you are a tax evader
AN EXPERT is a man who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
HONEY exports, mostly manuka, now total two hundred and forty million dollars a year
THE WIRELESS music box has no commercial value at all. Who would pay to have messages sent to no one in particular? – Response to David Sarnoff’s 1921 call for investment in a commercial radio station.
THE WORLD produced 300 million tonnes of plastic every year. Colossal amounts (estimated at five trillion pieces) are now in the sea where it ends up in one of five giant whirlpools of plastic rubbish known as gyres .
AS WATER freezes each molecule forms four relatively rigid H-bonds with it’s neighbours. This acts to push the molecules apart than during it’s liquid phase. As a result ice is less dense than water.