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THE REMUTAKA hill road will be closed overnights 9pm to 5am between Sunday 3rd March and  Friday 29th. An average 6650 vehicles a day use the road and 350 a night .

A LETTER posted at Featherston on January 22 nd eventually arrived in Martinborough on  the 30 th

TONGA owes China  $160 million which is roughly one third of its total GDP

“THE SUPREME quality of leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it no real success is possible whether on a section gang, a football field, in army or I office” –Dwight D Eisenhower. 

WELLINGTON City Council collects over  $21 million  in parking fees and parking fines. Makes you pleased that you live in South Wairarapa.  

“IT AIN’T what you don’t know that gets you in trouble. It’s what you know for sure which just ain’t so”. –Mark Twain

IN 1969 EVELYN BEEZIN created the world’s first word processor which was marketed as The Data Secretary. The unit was about a metre high with an attached IBM Selectic typewriter as a keyboard.  Around 10,000 were sold at $133,500 each.  

THERE were 36 fatal car crashes last year which were attributed to the driver using a mobile phone while driving. Also 201 crashes attributed to mobile usage in which people were seriously injured 

“TO THE PEOPLE in Washington listening is a period of silence where somebody else talks before you say what you were planning to do all along” James Comey

FORTY large vessels pass through the Panama Canal every day.

THE U.N. DEMOCRACY index of 167 countries placed Norway as the world’s most democratic country followed by Iceland, Sweden and New Zealand. Australia came in 9 th and the U.S.A. 25 th. The least democratic were North Korea, Syria and the Congo Republic.

‘LIFE IS NOT a matter of holding good cards but of playing a poor hand well’ – Robert Louis Stevenson

BIG BROTHER watches over the citizen of the UK. There are 5.9 million security cameras operating in the UK and half a million of these are in London.

THERE ARE NOW 20,000 sheep being milked in NZ, mostly in Waikato and Southland. The milk is being used to make cheese and baby formula

“ NOW AND THEN it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy” French poet Guillaune Apollinaire  

NEW ZEALND is among the worst countries in the world in terms of waste, generating around  25,000kgs of plastic rubbish every day.

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