Fish ('aught From Doorstep. A line set by a member of a party camped at Tanner's Point during Easter, from the front door of his little cottage, where, when the tide is full, the water laps the doorstep, hooked two six-pound kahawhai. The line, with a couple of sprats for bait, had been set early in the evening and shortly after retiring a couple of big splashes indicated that something was doing. The youngest member of the party was out of bed in a trice and a minute or two later the two silvery-looking fish were flapping on the floor in the doorway, the tide being full in. the landing could only he effected within the doorway of the cottage. Sometime ago under somewhat similar circumstances a large king fish or yellow-tail, was landed in the doorway by another party camped at the cottage. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure I'of Influenza Cold*.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 12334, 26 April 1938, Page 2
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