“THE OLDER I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom” H L Menken
AUSTRALIA’S BIGGEST dairy farm is At Woolnorth in Tasmania, it covers 7,000 hectares and is stocked with 18,000 cows. Previously owned by New Zealand Company TLC Ltd in 2016 it was sold to the Chinese company Van Dairy Group for $280 million. Following the sales TLC claimed that the had been short paid by $2.2 million. The case was disputed all the way to the Australian Supreme Court where the decision has gone against TLC.
‘ANYTHING that can be done WILL be done if it brings advantage or profit to those who can do it. The corollary of this law is: What can be done will NOT be done if it brings costs, economic or otherwise, to those who can stop it’ A C Grayling
ACCORDING TO the Salvation Army’s Annual Report Auckland’s average house price is thirty five times the median income. And that there are now twenty five thousand on the Social Housing waiting list.
“TO BELIEVE in democracy is to believe that the collective wisdom will emerge from individual ignorance “ H L Mencken
DRINKING caffeinated coffee appears to have both harmful and beneficial short term effects according to the American Heart Assn. Volunteers were randomly assigned to either drink or not drink coffee while wearing activity recording devices. Those drinking coffee averaged 1,000 more steps a day however had 36 minutes less sleep at night.
“ WE ARE drowning in information but are being starved for knowledge” John Naisbitt
TURKEY’S NEW NAME will be Türkiye. The decision to change the name foreigners use to describe the country, dumping its anglicised moniker after a century. The official reason for the rebrand was a better reflection of culture and civilisation,
“ THE ANXIOUS urge to say ‘now worries either way’ when you are actually worrying both ways plus a secret third way’
ASKED WHAT he though of Western civilisation the great Indian Nationalist leader Mahatma Gandhi replied that he thought that it would be a very good idea.
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The deadline fro the April issue is 4 pm Wednesday March 30th
