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THERE IS NO CHARGE to enjoy a swim at any of the Council’s three town swimming complexes. 

A PERFECT summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is gentle, the birds are singing and the lawn mower is broken.  

THE GERMAN data base ‘ Statista’ shows that the Chinese wine industry is expanding rapidly. Eight hundred million litres of grape wine were reported as having been produced in 2019  making it the world’s tenth largest producer. Statista noted that the figures could be questioned as bulk red wine was being imported from Chile and mixed with it’s own which was then labelled as ‘Produce of China’.  

‘ATTENTION IS the rarest and purest form of generosity’ – Simone Well

AUSTRALIA IS the world’s largest iron ore producer last year’s exports  valued at over a hundred billion dollars. 83% of production goes to China providing  65% of China’s ore requirements. The industry provides 65,000 Australian jobs. 

‘NEVER DOUBT the courage of the French . They’re the ones who discovered that snails are edible’ Doug Larsen   

‘IN GERMANY SHOPS are all closed on Sundays. Nobody complains about this rather they talk about the quality of life, family and the community ‘ John Kampfner in UK best seller ‘why the Germans do it better. 

‘WHEN I READ the lives of celebrities in our newspapers I sometimes wish  we had a Freedom from Information Act’. – Theodore Dalrymple 

THERE ARE twenty nine thousand  golf professionals registered with the PGA of America. Mostly teaching the game.

IT COSTS $338 per day to keep each of New Zealand’s  nine thousand prison inmates locked up. 80% have  convictions for violence. 665 have mental health problems, 87% have lifelong substance problems  and over 33% are gang affiliated. 

A MYSTIC  is somebody who wants to understand the universe but is too lazy to study physics 

EVEN WITH China , it’s main customer, not buying coal and fifty of it’s coal fleet boats currently held up in Chinese ports Australia is still exporting record amount of coal. During the year one hundred and forty nine billion tonnes of coal were exported through the coal port of Newcastle. The coal going to Indonesia, Russia, India and Pakistan  

The deadline for the March Star is Wednesday 24^th February