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THE STAR is available on line – simply Google Martinborough Star
ONE OF THE penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors” – Plato
A FOURTEEN Storey wooden apartment block of sixty two flats was completed in Norway in 2015. Currently a thirty storey wooden building is under construction in Vancouver. The wood is laminated cross ply resin cemented under pressure. . It is 9% -14% cheaper than steel, stronger and fire proof. Unlike steel it does not bend under heat and pressure.
“A CHANGE in nuisance is as good as a vacation” David Lloyd George
AN OAMARU woman, Irene Sparks, has captured the Guinness World record with her 21,321 neck tie collection. Official counters took several hours with the confirming count. The previous title holder was American Derryl Ogden who only has 16,055 ties.

DURING HIS seventy years of public service Prince Philip attended twenty two thousand public engagements and gave five and a half thousand speeches.
“ WHAT YOU DO makes a difference , and you have to decide what kind of a difference you want to make” –Jane Goodall
NIWA’s new 18 million dollar super computer, which is about the equivalent power of 16,000 laptops, can theoretically do 1.4 trillion calculations a second.
THERE ARE 534,000 registered dogs in New Zealand – and 1.4 million unregistered cats.
AUCKLAND Council debt equals $22,189 per ratepayer. $893 of each residential rates is used to service the interest. South Wairarapa Council debt equals $5,724 per ratepayer.
‘THERE IS no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception’ –James Thurber.
WITH A COMBINED age of 1075 years the 13 Donnelly siblings of Northern Ireland have entered the Guinness Record book. Their secret for longevity? Eat oat porridge for both breakfast and supper
THE TAX on petrol is 66.5 cents a litre – plus GST which brings it to 76.47 cents a litre. This brings in to the national coffers over two billion dollars a year.
“THE SUREST sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us” Bill Waterson
THE TV THREE comedy 7 Days has received $1million from NZ On Air to produce a further thirty two episodes of the long running show. Over it’s life 7 Days has received a total of $7,526,227 of taxpayer’s money through NZ On Air.
The deadline for the October issue is 4pm Wednesday Sept. 28th