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CONGRATULATION  to Bracken Ridge on their twenty years providing a wonderful facility for both local people and visitors. 

‘I LIKED IT MORE when Prince Harry moving to Canada was the biggest existential crisis  we faced as a nation.’ Gaby Hinscliff in the Guardian

IN 1752 in ORDER TO line it’s calendar up with that of Europe Britain deleted a week and a half from the calendar with September the 2 nd being followed by the 14 th.  Greece kept with the old calendar until 1923. 

 96% IS THE SIMILARITY  between the Coronavirus and the Sars virus identified in bats in China in 2013.

‘ AS DONALD TRUMP and Boris Johnson has proven, voters can cheerfully elect a badly behaved candidate , even with considerable ratbaggery  priced in. But prefer to know what kind of ratbag they are dealing with’ – Jane Clifton

‘JUST AS WE are asking our frail , vulnerable, easily confused old people to stay indoors, America is being asked to put them in the White House’ –Matt Chorley UK Times

CURRENTLY there are one hundred and seventeen New Zealand offshore island cleared of predators. 2019 was the most successful ever breeding year for Kākāpõ 

‘WHEN I WAS A BOY of 14 my father was so ignorant that I could hardly stand to have the old guy around. But when I go to 21 I was astonish at  how much he had learned in that seven years’ – Mark Twain

THERE ARE eighty eight companies licensed to bottle water in New Zealand taking 23 billion litres a year. The Otakiri plant at Whakatane, which is licensed for 25 years,  uses 3.7 million plastic bottles a day – 1.33 billion a year.

‘THE DIFFERENCE between successful people and others is how long they spend feeling sorry for themselves’ – Babara Cocoran 

ELETRIC CURRENT the ampere is defined in terms of the current required to generate a certain force between two wires set a metre apart. Two other units are included in the list: the amount of a substance in a given sample is measured in moles and luminous intensity is measured in candelas

24,767 PEOPLE tried to vote at the last election only to find that they had not enrolled. 7.6% of New Zealanders who are eligible to vote have not bothered to enrol.

BUILDING AUSTRALIA’S new French designed submarines, with a total cost of $200 billion and rising,  is costing more that all of the country’s welfare and social security benefits combined.  

The deadline for the May Star is 4pm Wednesday April 29th 

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Golf pro-am success _ without clubhouse

By Karen Stephens A record field of 172 players, including 43 professionals from New Zealand and Australia, battled light winds, warm temperatures and even light early-morning fog at Martinborough golf’s 2024 CER Electrical and Holmes Construction pro-am on February 1. At least that was the range of excuses for some …

Featherston wrestlers go offshore

Two members of Featherston Amateur Wrestling Club’s senior class have again been asked to join a New Zealand team overseas.  Wairangi Sargent and Angus Read will take part in the Journeymen Tournament and Training Camp over Easter in New York state.  Over the week they are there they will be …

Martinborough Golf Club has tumbled down

The demolition of the Martinborough Golf Club is complete. In the last days prior to Christmas a fully-insulated pole shed, much like a top end farm outbuilding, was erected to act as both office and temporary clubhouse. New septic tanks, internet connectivity, power, water, and Porticom loos were installed. On …

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FROM THE MAYOR

By Martin Connelly In February the local Lions Club invited me for dinner and asked …

Driving Growth and Collaboration: Martinborough Business Assn Committee

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How Well Do We Know People in our Community?

Michael Bing talks to Lyle Griffiths Michael was raised in Auckland, attending St Peters College …

BOOK REVIEWS FOR HOT SUMMER DAYS

By Brenda Channer – Martinborough Bookshop “Whether Violent or Natural” by Natasha Calder This debut …

Community Garden News

By Debbie Yates This is definitely the month of thank you. Nga Mihi Nui! We …

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Saturday 10 February: 10th annual Citizen Science Kākahi Count at Western Lake Shore Reserve, 18km …

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