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AN APPRECIATION of Ineke’s life and involvement in the community will be in the next issue of the Star.

 THE AMERICAN  gun lobby (the NRA) paid its PR firm Ackerman-McQueen forty million (US) dollars in 2018. The firm has been contracted to the NRA for two decades of promoting the lobby’s high powered messages. 

‘WHAT GOOD is the warmth of summer with out the cold of winter to give it sweetness?’ – John Steinbeck

KIWI RAIL is adding a third more log wagons to it’s Wairarapa line operation. This will have rail carrying the equivalent of 6,000 road logging trucks a year through the tunnel rather than over the hill by road.  

BY INPRISONING 220 people per hundred thousand of population New Zealand has the dubious distinction of joining the high jailing countries USA, Turkey, Chile and Israel. Japan by contrast has only 45 people per hundred thousand in prison and Germany only 78. 

‘IF YOU want to win friends and influence people , be prompt’ – Dale Carnegie 

ALTHOUGH THE USE of cheques is declining New Zealanders still signed  eighteen million last year. Persian banks  issued traveller’s cheques as far back as the third century. The first printed cheques were issued  by the Bank of England in 1717. 

‘WRINKLES ARE hereditary. Parents get them from their children’ – Doris Day

‘IN OUR SOCIETY there seems to be a general rule that the more obviously one’s work benefits other people the less they are paid. A world without teachers, nurses or police would soon be in trouble. It’s certainly not clear how humanity would suffer if private equity CEOs, PR researchers, telemarketers, spin doctors or consultants suddenly vanished.’ – David Graeber in his book Bullshit jobs.

YOU KNOW  that you are getting old when you bend down to do up your shoes and then look around for other things to do while you are down there.  

THE FIRST LANDING of a commercial aircraft by automatic control was a British Airways De Havilland jet flight from Paris to London on 10^th June 1965 

‘IF EVOLUTION really works how come mothers only have two hands?’ – Milton Berle 

THE FOUNDATION STONE for London Bridge was laid by the Duke of York on 15^th June 1825. – I am sure you are please to know that. 

The deadline for the July issue is 4pm Wednesday June 26^th However it is always helpful to us to have copy in a bit before  the deadline