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FUNDS received for hosting the Te Kairanga Farmer’s Market, held on the first Sunday of each month, will go towards the Waihinga Centre project.
BETWEEN 1996 and 2016 dairy exports rose from 16% to 25% of total exports. In the same period fish dropped from 6% to 3%, and wool from 6% to only 1%. Meat and wood remained stable at between 11% and 12%. Wine from not even registering in 1996 has risen to 2%.
THE FIRST touch screen was developed by Eric Arthur Johnson at the England Royal Radar Establishment in 1965. The screen was developed for use in airport flight control systems.
THE MINISTRY of Primary Industries has increased it’s mail Border Security staff as packages from China have trebled in the last two years. A total of sixty one million packages a year now arrive in New Zealand.
‘GOOD judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment’ –Will Rogers
THAILAND is by far the most dangerous holiday destination for Austalians. External Affairs figures showed that in the 2016/17 financial year 203 Australians died while on holiday there and 893 were hospitalised due to food poisoning, —- caught and accidents.

THERE ARE over seven and a half billion cell phone subscribers in the world. In USA there are 150,000 cell phone towers to route calls.
NEW ZEALND’S Exclusive Economic Zone is the fourth largest in the world. Covering 4,300.000 square Kilometres it is twenty times larger than our land mass.
THE SOFT touch screen as on smart phones and ipads was developed by severe tendinitis sufferer Wayne Westerman in 2001. He approached IBM, Microsoft, NEC and Apple with his screen but none were interested. However in 2005 Steve Jobs reconsidered and purchased the patents.
‘THERE’S nothing wrong with optimism, as long as you don’t get your hopes up’ – Charlotte Mendelson
FONTERA comes in at eighteenth out of the world’s twenty biggest dairy companies when it come to revenue per litre of milk processed. Danone gets $2.40 a litre, Nestle $1.90, Mengnui/Yili $1.40, Groupe Lactalis $1.30 – Fontera 60 cents.

TWO HUNDRED years ago the world’s population was less than one billion. It is now over seven billion. Between 1901 and 2001 it increased from 1.5 billon to 6.1 billion. However the growth peaked in 1962 and the growth rate has since slowed down.