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ST. ANDREW’S Anglican Church Christmas Gala is planned for Saturday 26th November, 10.00am-1.00pm in the church hall, Dublin Street
FRANKLI DELANO ROOSEVELT swept into the Whitehouse in 1932 by carrying 42 of the 48 states against his opponent sitting Republican President Herbert Hoover.
“Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.” – Winston Churchill
IT TAKES 1,100 kg of coal to produce 1 tonne of steel, 160 kg of coal to produce 1 tonne of cement and 1.5kg of coal to produce a keg of beer.
THERE ARE over three million registered users of Trade me with the site having one million visits on an average day.
WORKING in the media these days feels like being a prosecutor in a case where the defense never turns up. –NZ Herald report John Roughan
IN SEARCH of cheaper labour Hewlett Packard moved its factory from Shanghai west to the inland rural town of Chongqang where it now produces 20 million laptops and 15 million printers a year.

FOLLOWING the imposition of a compulsory 5 P levy on plastic supermarket bags us of these dropped by 85%.
THERE ARE approximately thirty muscles in a cat’s ear. A human has six.
A cat can rotate each ear separately through 180 degrees – thus detecting and analysing noises from two directions simultaneously.
THE ECONOMY depends on economists as much as the weather depends on weather forecasters .
THE AVERAGE person in Britain purchases 480 plastic bottled products a year – and only recycles 270 of these. Over one weekend 8,000 plastic bottles were picked up off the Orkney Island beaches.
ON NOVEMBER 14TH 1990 a gunman shot eleven of Aromoana’s fifty inhabitants.
EINSTEIN’S brain was slightly smaller than usual. However the parietal lobes, which are linked to maths ability, were 15% wider than normal.
NEW ZEALAND’S average house hold debt to income has risen from 56% in 1991 to now top 165%. This puts us in the top quarter of the most indebted nations according to an OECD report.
THE GOVERNMENT gave Grant Dalton and Team NZ thirty six million dollars towards competing in the last America’s Cup
AMERICA’S first black senator was Edward Brooke who was elected to represent Massachusetts in 1966.
The deadline for the Christmas issue of the Star is 4.pm on Wednesday Nov 30th