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MARCH 16th – 22nd is Graffiti Free Week – when individuals, businesses, schools and groups get out into their communities and help to remove graffiti from their patch.

RESULTS of the NZ Women’s Cycle Race: 1st Jo Hogan (Australia) 2nd Evelyn Stevens (U.S.A.) 3rd Taylor Wiles (U.S.A.)

FUNDED by the government just means funded by the people. Government, by the way, has no money. It only takes money from the people. Sometimes people forget that that’s really what occurs.- Elon Musk

NZ Cricket has donated Tuturumuri School with a cricket set which is now being greatly enjoyed.

A TOTAL of seventy nine million new cars were registered in the world last year. This year it is estimated that the number will top eighty million.

FOR EVERY dollar spent on Lotto almost two dollars are spent on pokie machines. Last year pokies took in $808, Casinos $509 million, Lotto $463 million and TAB $311 million.

EVERYONE is a bit of a fool for at least five minutes a day. Wisdom consists of not exceeding that limit.

THE HURRICANS have never won the Super Rugby title. Crusaders have won 7 times, Blues and Bull 3, Brumbies and Chiefs 2, and The Reds once.

SCALP HAIR grows at a rate of 16 cm a year, while beard hair only grows at 10 cm a year

NEW ZEALAND has one hundred species of skinks and geckos, compare with only Britain’s only six species of lizards. However NZ snails do even better with around thirty species living in native bush litter.

MOST CELLS in the human body are replaced at least once a month. Exceptions are liver cells which last for years and brain cells which last for a lifetime – so why would you damage them by taking drugs?

TWO THOUSAND books are published in New Zealand each year. While non fiction make up 40% of all books sold in NZ local fiction typically accounts for only 3% of the sales.

THE U.S. CONGRESS has voted 3.3 million dollars towards efforts to save the now endangered Monarch butterflies.

NINETY TWO percent of New Zealand small businesses employ less than five people.

‘I AM so clever that some times I don’t understand a word I say” – Oscar Wilde

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