DID YOU KNOW

A  SINGLE transaction of bitcoin has the same carbon footprint as 680,000 Visa transactions or 51,210 hours of watching YouTube, according to the site.

‘THE PEOPLE who hanker loudest for some nostalgic golden time of yesteryear usually drive new cars’- Russell Baker

CORELOGIC DATA show that over the last three months Wellington house prices rose $5,772 per week.

NEW ZEALAND WINE exports hit $2 billion . Every second about eighty glasses on New Zealand wine are consumed around the world.

However while total volume is up prices keep dropping. The average price received per litre in 2001 was $10.31. By 2009 it was $ 8.85 and 2020 just $ 6.71 

THE FIRST Citizen’s Advice Bureau was opened in Ponsonby Auckland fifty years ago. There are now eighty five Advice Bureaus in New Zealand providing advice and assistance. Also available online are 2,755 recorded answers to the most frequently asked questions. These are grouped under eight general headings for easy access. 

“IN HIS JOB my dad has never lost a case. That makes him Gatwick’s top luggage handler” Glenn Moore 

BATS HAVE BEEN eaten since Paleolithic times. They are still considered good eating in some parts of Asia, Africa and the Pacific rim 

Bats can carry more than 200 kinds of coronavirus, however it requires an intermediary animal, cat, dog, pig rat etc. to pass this to humans. TWO THIRDS of New Zealand white wine exports to the UK are shipped in bulk fetching an average $4.03 a litre . Then marketed under brands New Zealanders will have never heard of such as Mahia Point, Okahu Bay or Tiki Ridge.

“I MAY BE drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly” Winston Churchill 

FOR THE THIRD consecutive year  the Coca Cola Company, PepsiCo and Nestlé have been named the world’s top plastic polluters. In their latest survey  volunteers from Break Free From Plastics collected and analysed 346, 494 pieces of discarded packaging from fifty five different countries.

PAPUA NEW GUINEA has only around five hundred doctors to care for a population of nine million people. Covid is running rampant, recent testing of maternity nurses at the Port Moresby General hospital  revealed that one third tested positive for covid.  

The Deadline for the May issue is 4 pm Wednesday 28 th April