OUR DAILY FEATURES

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXV, Issue 12302, 16 April 1937, Page 2

OUR DAILY FEATURES

]• A PAGE FROM THE PAST Taurauga 50 Years Ago In the Bay of Plenty Times nr April Hi, ISST. we read:— 1 “xV consignment of about 2 tons ot cheese from the Katikati Cheese Fac tory, is now in Mr R. C. Jordan’s hands, being tinned and canned tor export to the London market. xhe cheese has been te.ted by the Export Association, and is being forwarded under its auspices, hearing the ‘V. ril Label’ brand." u "The Rangiwae natives had a stroke of luck on Tuesday, when the* ucneeded in capturing a member of the whale family, in the shape of a large blaekfish, from which they have extracted between 40 and 50 callous of oil.” "Tho tv lea a’e dust washed down from the .surrounding country, has considerably altered the coitrse'of th> Whakatane River. We learn from one of the passengers of the s.s, Dom> las, that it was a matter of sonr difficulty to navigate the steamer across the bar with the heavy BVe)1 running at the time. Doubtless tlv fir t heavy fre.h will do a good deal towards straightening out its intricacies, and cause the channel to reve t to its original course." "Mr J. Bodell’s steam launch Result made an excursion trip to Mono Maunganui ye terday afternoon"