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Dear Editor, I submit my letter for your consideration to publish in the Elocal magazine, I wholeheartedly support the Coalition Government’s focus on getting New Zealand’s economy back into a healthy state, and this will take time. Unfortunately, not all Government members seem to recognise that their efforts on the economic front are being continually undermined by the…

The first 100 days of the National led ‘3 headed taniwha’ coalition Government have come and gone this month and media and MP’s alike are scrambling to shout from the rooftops about what has been done and blurring the lines of non-achievement on any that appear to have fallen short on the deadline. My own take on the first 100 days comes down to the bewildering shenanigans that…

2024 is a leap year, a leap year is a year with 366 days, instead of the usual 365. Leap years are necessary because the actual length of a year is nearly 365.25 days, not 365 days as commonly stated. Leap years occur every four years, and years that are evenly divisible by four (2020, for example) have 366 days. This extra day is added to the calendar on February 29. However,…