COMMUNITY Guy Fawkes Night at Considine Park Saturday 7 November (pp day Sunday 8 November). Gates open from 5.30pm; food and drinks available for sale; gold coin entry with all proceeds going towards the purchase of Martinborough Junior Hockey’s new 11-aside team shirts for next season.
WITH PUBLIC sentiment nothing can fail and without it nothing can succeed – Abraham Lincoln
SO FAR this year in the USA every single week there has been a multiple shooting (4+ victims). 247 people shot in 238 days.
VEHICLE production accounts for 17% of Germany’s industrial output. 15% of German jobs are reliant on the automotive industry in some way.
“GOVERNMENT always finds a need for whatever money it gets.”
Ronald Reagan
EUROPEAN UNUION’S twenty eight member states account for 54% of the world’s spending on welfare.
A QUARTER of the world’s utes are produced in Thailand.
AUCKLAND and Wellington have the same average number of annual sunshine hours (2,050). But Auckland has a lot more rain.
RUIGBY was an included sport in both the 1920 and 1924 Olympics. Curiously U.S.A. won the Rugby Gold Medal at each of these games.
LOS ANGELES City Council run 160 pure electric vehicles including a fire appliance and an electric BMW which they are evaluating as a police cruiser. It also runs 128 plug in hybrids.
WHAT rally flatters a man is that you think h is worth flattering – George Bernard Shaw.
A PRODUCTIVITY Commission report released last month found ‘the 10,000 highest cost clients of the Social Services system’ each cost $500,000 in their lifetime. ($5 billion on 0.2% of the population).
AGE is an issue of mind over matter – if you don’t mind it doesn’t matter – Mark Twain.
GOOGLE processes over 40,000 search enquiries every second. Which equates to 3.5 billion searches daily.
WELLINGTON City Council employs forty three PR people in its press and marketing operation.
A UNITED NATION’S report showed that more people (6 billion) had a cell phone than those (4.5 billion) who had access to a flushing toilet.
SLOVAKIA is the world’s biggest producer of motor vehicles on a per head of population basis. Producing Peugeot, Citroen, Volkswagen, Kia, Skoda and Audi and soon Jaguar cars accounts for 40% of the country’s total production
