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CHRISTMAS parade and Carols in the Square on Saturday 16th from 5 pm.

The SWIMMING baths are now open – and this season there is no entry charge – that’s right, FREE, so come and enjoy a swim.

THERE ARE over two million Apps in the Apple Store. January 1st was the store’s busiest ever day when people downloaded US$ 240,000,000 worth of Apps.

POCKIE MACHINES removed $845 million from gamers last year , with this figure on track to be surpassed this year.

‘FEW THINGS are harder to put up with than a good example’- Mark Twain

BETWEEN the ages of fifty and seventy five the death rate of men is 30% higher than women. And yet the Health Research Council only spend six cents in every dollar on research men’s health research. – Prof. David Baxter Otago University Centre for Men’s Health.

ENGLISH RUGBY bosses have unveiled that a four year plan to unseat the All Blacks as world champs is under way. The cost of the exercise is costed at $853 million. It is a sobering thought that they can afford it.

THIS AND no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears as a protector –Plato

IN THE last 2.6 million years ten mega volcanic blasts have occurred. Four of which have been in NZ’s North Island including the most recent , the Oruanui eruption, 25,500 years ago.

FIFTY SEVEN thousand cars were imported into New Zealand last year. If parked nose to tail they would stretch fro 250 kms.

WORK and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions – Mark Twain

FIREARMS to the value of $55,000 were imported into NZ for resale in 2016.

OVER THE LAST six years Australia has beaten the All Blacks three times. On each occasion Wayne Barns was the man with the whistle.

BETWEEN 1966 and 1974 France exploded thirty seven atom bombs above the Moruroa atoll and five above Fangataufa. They then switched to underground tests exploding eighty seven at Moruroa and a further six at Fangataufa.

‘FREEDOM of speech’ does not include the right to be taken seriously, listened to or even heard’ –Ricky Gervais

‘MEN can only be highly civilised while other men, inevitably less civilised, are there to guard and feed them ‘ –George Orwell.

There will be no Star in January. The deadline for the February issue is 4pm Wednesday January 31st