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AN APPRECIATION of Ineke’s life and involvement in the community will be in the next issue of the Star.
THE AMERICAN gun lobby (the NRA) paid its PR firm Ackerman-McQueen forty million (US) dollars in 2018. The firm has been contracted to the NRA for two decades of promoting the lobby’s high powered messages.
‘WHAT GOOD is the warmth of summer with out the cold of winter to give it sweetness?’ – John Steinbeck
KIWI RAIL is adding a third more log wagons to it’s Wairarapa line operation. This will have rail carrying the equivalent of 6,000 road logging trucks a year through the tunnel rather than over the hill by road.
BY INPRISONING 220 people per hundred thousand of population New Zealand has the dubious distinction of joining the high jailing countries USA, Turkey, Chile and Israel. Japan by contrast has only 45 people per hundred thousand in prison and Germany only 78.
‘IF YOU want to win friends and influence people , be prompt’ – Dale Carnegie
ALTHOUGH THE USE of cheques is declining New Zealanders still signed eighteen million last year. Persian banks issued traveller’s cheques as far back as the third century. The first printed cheques were issued by the Bank of England in 1717. … Continue Reading
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