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“COMMENT IS FREE but facts are sacred . The voice of opponents no less than that of friends has a right to be heard.” P Scott , first editor of the Guardian written 1821

‘ FACEBOOK IS such a drag. In my day seeing pictures of people’s vacations  was considered a punishment’. Betty White

MORE THAN twenty five thousand Seiko quartz watches , known for their acuracy and reasonable price come off the robotic assembly line at the Seiko plant in Morioka northern Japan every day. In the same factory a small team of skilled workers continue to produce by hand the traditional, and very expensive, Grand Seiko spring watches. 

‘PROGRESS IS impossible without change, and those who  cannot change their mnds cannot change anything’  George Bernard Shaw 

CARTERTON HAS the dubious honour of being named as having NZ’s highest annual residential rates ( $3,639) . Auckland comes in second with $3,599. 

 BOEING launched itself into the jet transport era with its new 707 making its maiden flight on 15^th July 1954 

“IF YOU BELIEVE that everyone  should play by the same rules and judged by the same standards , that would have got you labelled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago and a racist today” Thomas Sowell 

THE CURRENT Rolls Royce jet engine sucks in a ton of air a second and compressed fifty times with the added fuel. The gas mixture then roaring out of the combustion chamber reaches around 1,600 degrees celcius.  

“IF I’M SELLING to you I speak your language. If I’m buying, dann müssen Sei Duetsch spechen” Willy Brandt

IN CURING NINE year old rabies victim Joseph Meister in July 1885 French scientist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur confounded his critics by proving without a doubt that the best way to tackle the killer disease rabies was intoducing by vaccinating micro organisms of the disease itself. 

A CHANGE to the EU regulations will come into force in August which will

remove the ban on farm feed made of animal remains introduced during the BSE crisis. This will allow cheap pig protein to be fed to chickens because of fears that European farmers are being undercut by lower standards elsewhere.

The absolute deadline for the August Star is 4 pm Wednesday 28^th July