That's us, up near the top! NZ Govt is saving up piles of shares. The other countries up top basically invest some of the spoils from their trade surplus in Govt share portfolios; but NZ runs a trade deficit. What's going on?
NZ Govt 'borrows' $ cheap to buy shares that pay a higher return! [2/n]

What's not useful is Shane Jones using this situation to denigrate immigrants as a whole.

Elephants were the standard measure in Wales when we visited "electric mountain" (Dinorwig power station). As in "this tunnel is 4 elephants wide" and "the amount of water that flows through that pipe is 25 elephants per second. In a Welsh accent it was quite charming.

Nor firm - just watching that vid they talk about predictable tides between the two islands - something like this in the Cook might be as predictable?

Faaark had forgotten that last point. But then the prize is given for good deeds done in the preceding year so perhaps they had all done just enough in the last 12 months to earn that toffee pop?

We managed to break the surprisingly really good, orginal Samsung remote and bought a knock off that barely functions but that app is an abomination. And now noticed the TV is serving up ads on startup (they had a function which allowed you to stop ads but they've removed that). What nonsense.

New best friend.

Agree. There's a gap in the bike network between Crawford Rd and Rintoul St. Call your councillors and ask them to fix this.
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