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MARTINBOROUGH CAFES donated a dollar from every coffee served last Saturday towards the Kaikoura earthquake appeal.
TRANSIT provided their buses free of charge to all Wairarapa schools to carry the 7,000 plus pupils who took part in the World Record Haka at Masterton.
AN AVERAGE eight hundred new cars are added to Auckland’s vehicle fleet every day. Little wonder the roads are becoming a bit crowded
AMERICA is NZ’s third biggest export market totalling $8.4 billion a year 12% of our exports of goods and services.
‘WANTING TO meet an author because you like his books is like wanting to meet a duck because you like Pate’ –Margaret Atwood
MANY CHINESE towns concentrate on producing a large quantity of single product. Yongkand factories produce 150,000 motor scooters a day. Yiwa produces 8 billion pairs of socks a year. Shaoxing produces textile, Taizone sewing machines, Haining leather goods and Shenzhou neckties. There is even a town which specialises in toothbrushes.

WANT TO know what God thinks of money? Look at th people he gave it to.
NZ HOSTED over three million tourist visitors last year. 240,000 of whom came from America.
OVER ten thousand tonnes of Mandarins are produced by New Zealand growers, mostly in Northland, each year.
BRAIN CELLS use twice as much energy as other cells in the body.
‘AT HOME I’m a real nice guy, but I don’t want the world to know. Humble people , I’ve found, don’t get very far’ – Muhammad Ali
THE FIRST Tip Top ice cream parlour opened in Wellington in 1936; up to now, the company has produced 12 million Trumpets and about eight million popsicles.’
LAST YEAR there were thirty thousand deaths through terrorism. The most dangerous OECD country is France, followed by Israel and Britain. However these are only rated as 29th, 33rd and 34th on a world scale. New Zealand is rated 112th. Iraq, Afghanistan and Nigeria are the three most dangerous countries.
A JURY is twelve people chosen to decided who has the better lawyer.
THERE’S TALK that Donald Trump may appoint Sarah Palin as secretary of the Interior which means that she would oversee the National Parks Service. On hearing this the bears were, like, “Well, we had a good run”.
There will be no Star in January. The deadline for the February issue is 4pm Wednesday January 25th.