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THE VIRUS underlined the necessity of having local shops and services. Supporting them by shopping always locally ensures their  viability and their being there whenever we need them 

LOCAL government get only 10% of the total tax take but is responsible for delivery of a third of New Zealand’s infrastructure.

TO ACIEVE great things two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time” Leonard Bernstein

ACCORDING TO Morgan Stanley the U.S.A. debit to revenue ratio is 358%. A fifth of this debt is held by the People’s Republic of China. In the 1990s the U.S.A.  revenue was in surplus. 

OVER 100 DAYS after the event smoke from the Australian bush fires are still circling the earth. The smoke now 35 kms above the planet is being tracked by NIWA’s research station at Lauder Central Otago. 

WANTING TO meet an author because you like his books is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté. –Margaret Atwood

ENGLISH  mathematical scientist Robert Recorde introduced the symbols + and – in 1540. In 1557 he also added the = sign explaining ’bicause noe 2 thynges  an be moare equalle’. 

LAST YEAR CHINA replaces the U. S.A. as the world’s biggest car market  with over fourteen million cars being sold.

THREE OUT OF FOUR cars sold in Norway are electric. There is no purchase tax on electric cars there as a result 60% now sold are pure electric and 17% hybrid. 

FIVE MILLION plastic bottles of drinks – juices, water and soft drinks – are sold in New Zealand every day. Only 35% of these are recycled. 

A JURY consists of twelve people who meet to decide who has the better lawyer. – Robert Maxwell 

“THERE ARE ONLY two things women don’t do as well as men – designing dresses and cook” – Germaine Greer. – However: “ Behind every great man  is a women rolling her eyes” – Jim Carrey 

NOVID19 OECD deaths per capita as of mid May: Spain 562, Britain 469, USA 238. Lowest were Japan 5, Korea 5 , NZ 4, Australia 4.

IN 1679 DANISH astromoner Ole Romer calculated the speed of light as 298,000 kilometres per second. Stunningly close to the modern value of 299,792 

AND , DON’T FORGET – SHOP LOCALLY AND KEEP OUR TOWN VIBRANT 

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