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‘DO NOT  think that your single vote does not matter much. The rain which refreshes the parched ground is made up of single drops’ – Kate Sheppard 

NEW ZEALAND will be hosting the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) conference in Auckland in 2021. $300,000,000 has been budgeted for hosting the event. 

IT COSTS $US 122,311 an hour to fly an American B2 bomber and $US 122,311 an hour to fly an F22 fighter.

THE GREAT FIRE of London started  at a baker’s hop in Pudding Lane on 2^nd September 1666. The fire burned for three days  destroying 13,200 houses, over 80 churches, 44 company halls and the original St Paul’s.  The official death toll was eight. 

CATS AND DOGS too. Before you light up indoors spare a thought for your pets. Studies have found that cats and dogs are  twice as likely to get cancer when exposed to cigarette smoke 

SINCE THE ADVENT  of television no bald men have been elected British Prime Minister. Defeated contenders include Sir Alec Douglas-Home, Neil Kinnock, William Hague, and Michael Howard. 

 ‘CREATIVITY IS allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep’ – artist Scott Adams

THE BRITISH NATIONAL  anthem God Save the Queen shares the same tune as that of Liechtenstein. This caused some confusion when these countries’ anthems were played before the teams met in the qualifiers for the 2004 European cup 

‘ IF YOU can’t be a good example, then you’ll just have to be a horrible warning’ – novelist Catherine Aird

IN AUCKLAND more than 20,000 homeless people don’t have access to regular showers or laundry facilities, hence the need for groups like Orange Sky. Orange Sky operates a self contained custom van fitted with shower and washing machines and is open to homeless people. 

INSANITY  IS heredity, you get it from your children. 

HARLAND AND WOLFF the Belfast shipyard which once  employed 3,000 workers and built ships such as the Titanic has been declared bankrupt. The company had shrunk to having only 123 staff. 

‘GIVE ME a one handed economist. All my economists say ‘on one hand …. on the other’ – President Harry Truman.

NARU, WITH 11,000 inhabitants the world’s smallest republic, has gone to the polls to elect it’s nineteen person parliament. Sixty candidates vied for a seat. 

The deadline for the October Star is 4pm  Wednesday Sept. 25th