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THE ROSE AND FLOWER show is on this Saturday at the Town Hall. Come along and be amazed at the beautiful blooms – and delight in the scents.  

IN THE FIRST six months of this year Life Flight flew rescue flights helping a total of 765 people. There will be a Wairarapa rural horse trek fundraiser for Life Flight over the 29 th November and 1 st December. For details contact Joe Brown Chejoe@xtraco.nz  06 377 7429 or 027 758 1711. 

THE AVERAGE City/District Council personal cost is $1, 364 per household. Westland council has the dubious honour of being New Zealand’s most expensive at $3, 643 per household. While at only  $724 South Wairarapa is in New Zealand’s lowest five.  A pat on the back for SWDC. 

‘A BOOKSHOP is one of the only pieces of evidence  we have that people are still thinking’ –Jerry Seinfield

COMBINED USA and China create 43% of the world’s greenhouse emissions. However China has spent the equivalent a trillion US dollars on air, water and soil clean-ups. Shuttered coal mines and capped coal consumption and spending more than any other country on renewable energy projects. 

DONALD TRUMP  has now gone through more Security Advisors than wives. 

ON collection day there are now three different coloured wheelie bins lining the streets as two commercial companies are competing to pick up our rubbish while it is still collected by the Council as part of its service. Three rubbish trucks trundling around instead of one, So much for getting our emissions down. 

KIM JONG UN’s Mercedes Maybach Pullman weighs in at five tonne. It is fully armoured and can with stand machine gun fire or bomb blasts. It’s doors are so heavy that they have to have electric motors to open and close them.   

STREAMING high density images is driving the amount of carbon being pumped out by the IT industry. This now accounts for  4-5% of global emissions.

‘MOST FOOTBALL PLAYERS are temperamental – That’s  90% temper and 10% mental ‘ NFL coach Doug Plank 

A CRUISE SHIP at Wellington produces greater emissions than all the cars coming into the city on that day 

The deadline for the December Issue is 4pm Wednesday November 27 th 

SPRING WEATHER

Sun, hail, marching fronts:

El Nino and La Nina

dancing the Tango.   Maree Roy