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THE NEW Airbus A350 XWB is capable of flying non stop from Singapore to New York. It’s huge fuel tank, required to make such a flight, holds 24,000 litres of fuel.

THE FIRST South Wairarapa Airbnb was registered in 2015. There are now 152 registered in South Wairarapa.

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY is on track to having 100% renewable energy by 2020. This from a starting point of being 80% non renewable in 2015. Major works have included  erecting thirty large wind turbines and making grants for  5,000 roof solar systems  plus storage batteries. 

AS ATRIBUTED to the philosopher, Pythagoras:

“Listen and you will be wise; the beginning of wisdom is silence.”

SOON AFTER the German wasp invaded NZ in the 1940s, the government offered  a reward of  three pence ( 2018 = $1.50) for every hibernating queen sent into the Dept. of Agriculture. Some 118,000 queens were sent in . But it wasn’t enough to stop the spread. 

FACEBOOK’S 2.1 billion users spend an average of  fifty minutes each day on site.

NEW ZEALANDER’S spend between eight and nine billion dollars a year of petrol and diesel ours is the most expensive fuel in the OECD.  The excise tax, which goes into the roads fund, is sixty cents in the litre – plus 15% GST.

A one cent  a litre rise takes a further thirty two million dollarsa ayear from the public ‘s purse. 

BASED ON Colmar Brunton polling there are now 2,800 drone users in New Zealand. On average they are males between the age of 25 and 39. Many tourists  pick up a drone at Duty Free as they enter. Typically drone flyers have no training of flying  or of the flying rules.

LAST YEAR $2,568 billion was spent on advertising in New Zealand. 36% of that, $925 million, went to digital adverting on Google and Facebook. Newspaper advertising continued to drop to  now 14% of the total ,$353 million,  while radio has a tiny .23% share. Only TV held its own at $566 Million. 

FAMILY VIOLENCE takes up 40% of the police’s time. The total cost of dealing with family violence in New Zealand is $1.4 billion a year

 DESPITE only being 0.25% of the world’s population Israel citizens have taken 22% of the Nobel prizes. Inventions coming from Israel include cellphones, Intel chips, polio vaccine,  USB flash drives and ingestible medical video cameras.

 

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