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TEN THOUSAND New Zealand grandparents are bring up seventeen thousand of their grandchildren whose parents are unable to due to their P addiction.

EVERY YEAR in New Zealand five million worn tyres are discarded. 5% are re-cycled but most simply end up in land fills. In Europe 95% of worn tyres are re-cycled, in Japan and America 80% are re-cycled.
‘THE PRESIDENT IS seventy, he wants a golf score of sixty and his country in the fifties’ Seth Myers
TWENTY NINE PERCENT of Americans believe that UFOs and aliens exist but proof of their existence is kept secret by the US Government.

APPLE SOLD ninety million iPhones in it’s first two years of production

IT IS 200 YEARS since inventor Karl Drais rode a bicycle for the first time, in the German city of Mannheim. The idea came when Karl von Drais saw a lovely young girl ice skating, and he saw how fluently she moved across the ice. He thought that if he was to put wheels under himself, he could move as gracefully as her.

‘THE JOURNEY is the reward‘ –Steve Jobs

MYSTERY CREEK farmer’s expo site covers one hundred and fourteen hectares with around fifteen hundred exhibitors set up on the forty seven hectare exhibition site. There is parking for four thousand cars.
THERE ARE eight hundred thousand cars registered in Auckland

IN THE RECENT British elections Theresa May’s opposing candidates included Lord Buckethead, who stood on a platform of “not entirely stable leadership” won 249 votes. Howling “Laud” Hope of the Monster Raving Loony Party who gained 119 votes. And Elmo, who clearly doesn’t have a wide circle of friends, won three votes! Mrs May won with 37,718 votes.

A GOVERNMENT that robs Peter to pay Paul can always rely on the support of Paul. George Bernard Shaw
THE iPHONE production factory on the outskirts of Shenzen China cover four hectares. It employs 450,000 workers who work twelve hour shifts and live in on site dormitories.

IN 2000 there were 1,500 registered apple orchards in New Zealand. There are now 400.

THE FIRST Model T Ford rolled off the assembly line on August 12th 1908. Newspapers described Henry Ford’s concept of mass production as a huge gamble

‘GET YOUR facts first, then you can distort them as you please’ –Mark Twain

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