Water usage...

I know, this blog is pretty much dead.  But I couldn't resist this one...
Hamilton just brought in their (pretty much) annual water restrictions that happen somewhere around the beginning of each year.  According to this story, Hamilton's residents normally use around 357L per person per day.  That has recently spiked up to around 500L as it's finally got dry for the summer and people have been watering gardens.  That sounded rather high to me, so I checked what Brisbane's numbers are: according to this, Brisbane residents used 163L per person per day over the entire past year.  Quite a difference, isn't it!

487 million tons

of coal were mined in Australia in the 2008/2009 financial year, roughly 100 times as much as in NZ. Of that, about 261 million tons were exported, making Australia the biggest exporter of coal in the world.

Quite a few of the Bowen Basin coal mines in central Queensland are bigger than the entire NZ coal mining industry: they really are huge mines.

4.6 million tons

of coal were mined in NZ last year.

Let's hope for some good news from Pike River in the next day or two.

Honda

Is the biggest-selling brand of motorcycle in Australia. Third quarter 2010 sales total: 15446. Which is roughly 5000 per month. Compare that to yesterday's figure for the leading brand in NZ. I know Australia is bigger, but it's certainly not that much bigger.

I suspect dirtbikes might not be included in the NZ figure, but are included in the Aus figures or something like that.

Suzuki

Is the most popular brand of motorcycle in NZ... according to this. But then again, that's based off a monthly value, with a total of 56 Suzuki sales in the entire country. I guess it's a small market.

0 posts

Have been posted here in the last month. I guess I've run out of random statistics for now and maybe I should rename this blog g-s-o-t-m or something similar (insert "month" or "millenium" depending how charitable you feel)

140000 lambs per day

that's how many are born each day around this time of year, just in Otago and Southland, according to this article, which sounds about right considering the number of sheep around there. Putting the numbers like that makes for a pretty astounding figure!