DID YOU KNOW

‘MADE IN WAIRARAPA’ is the title of a display of works by local artists on show at Ventana Gallery through February

BRUCE AND VAL JOHNS have been married for fifty eight years

A THIRD third of New Zealand’s MPs have only ever worked inside the government system. Another third built no real career before they tried to get into Parliament.

CATS SLEEP an average of between fourteen and eighteen hours a day. A fifteen year old cat may have spent up to ten years sleeping. At any one time Florence Nightingale owned seventeen cats . Totalling over sixty during her lifetime

“SOME PEOPLE regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.”–
Winston Churchill

“LET US NEVER forget this fundamental truth: the State has no source of money other than money which people earn themselves. If the State wishes to spend more is can do so only by borrowing your savings or by taxing you more. It is no good thinking that someone else will pay – that
‘someone else’ is you. There is no such thing as public money; there is only taxpayers’ money.” – Margaret Thatcher

“THE BEST argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter’ – Winston Churchill

ONE HUNDRED and twenty people have been killed while taking ‘selfies’ usually in dangerous places. One was killed from behind by a lion another by a bear, others by stepping backwards into ravines. Eight deaths have been in Russia and six in America, the rest spread around the world.

“NEW ZEALAND’s hourly output has been slowing for more than a decade.
We’re not working smarter or with better machines that allow us to produce more. We are employing more baristas and real estate agents and not nearly enough exporters. Real wages are a product of real output per hour worked” -Bernard Hickey

WORLD WIDE spending on organic foods now exceeds seventy billion dollars a year – and continues to continue to quickly expand

WEST EDMONTON MALL North America’s biggest mall covers forty eight city blocks, has eight hundred shops and twenty thousand car parks. It is ‘visited’ by twenty million people a year – twice as many as California’s Disneyland.
Deadline for the March issue is Wednesday 23rd Feb.