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OF THE 566 committee members negotiating the proposed Trans Pacific Partnership 480 (85%) are senior corporate executives or representatives of industry lobby groups.
STAR READER Bob Grant was thrilled to see his father mentioned in Mate’s article on the W.F.C.A. His father delivered goods to outlying farms with a wagon and team of six horses.

THE GREATEST advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

THOMAS Jefferson’s favourite vegetable was peas. He cultivated nineteen varieties in his Montecello vegetable garden.

THE DIFFERENCE between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.

EIGHTY percent of processed foods have the same five basic ingredients.

SUCCESS is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm – Winston Churchill.

THERE are 480,000 private rental properties in New Zealand along with 68,000 Housing NMZ properties and 19,000 community or council owned properties.

A PLUTO day is equal to sixteen earth days.

THINGS may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. – Abraham Lincoln.

RUGBY Championship top scorers (at time of printing) : Dan Carter 531, Morne Steyn 348, Andrew Mehrtens 328, Matt Bourke 271.

NOTHING sucks more than the moment during an argument when you realize that you are wrong.

ROBBERS don’t like the cold it seems. Statistics show that rates of burglary and car theft drop off as the temperature goes below fifteen degrees, with a decrease of 1.5% for every one degree of temperature drop.

HONEY exports have risen 600% in the last decade with honey worth $227 million being exported last year, which was a 25% increase on 2014.

THE world’s oldest person has died. Again. Third time this year. Someone is killing the world’s oldest people and nobody’s doing anything about it.

AUSTRALIA has won six of the last World Netball Cups, New Zealand won the other two.

FRENCH farmers blocked main roads in protest at lower prices being received for their milk and meat. As a result the French government has agreed to wave the equivalent $180 million in farm taxes and set aside a further $870 million for loans to ease cash flow crisis.

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