Did you know

Rachael Colton won the Wairarapa-Bush Junior Administrator of the Year Award. Rachael is the driving force behind the whole club not just the JAB – congratulations, a well deserved award.

NEXT WEEK Queen Elizabeth the Second will become the longest serving monarch in British history – that is in 1,145 years of British history.

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’s what really occurs –Elon Musk.

THE OIL TANKER Jahre Viking was the world’s largest ship. It was 485 metres long and weighed 657, 000 tonnes laden, her rudder weighed in at 230 tonnes. Despite it’s size it had a crew of only forty. It was broken up for scrap in 2010.

ALMOST one and a half billion dollars are spent every year on reducing family violence in New Zealand.

IV’E learned so much from my mistakes that I’m thinking of making a few more.

SIXTY SIX percent of companies registered on the NZX are based in Auckland. Fourteen percent are Wellington companies. Of the top ten companies eight are Auckland base and two from Wellington. In the 1980s all NZ banks had their head offices in Wellington now only Kiwi Bank is based there.

CONSUMER NZ checked the contents description on the packets of eighty one commonly purchased foods. Most covered the topic with simply ‘made from local and imported foods’. Australian law requires ingredients to be listed – NZ does not. Only Talleys source all their ingredients from within New Zealand.

THERE is always an easy solution to every problem – neat, plausible and wrong

NZ FARMERS produce only three per cent of all cow’s milk produced worldwide. However only seven per cent of the milk produced worldwide is exported. Forty per cent of that traded seven per cent is contributed by New Zealand.

ADVANCED computer chip making tools are precise to one ten- thousandth the thickness of a human hair.

BOTH optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane and the pessimist the
parachute – George Bernard Shaw.

The deadline for the October Star is 4pm Wednesday September 30th. However it is always helpful to us if copy can be in a bit earlier than the deadline