OUR Daily Features
A PAGE FROM THE PAST TAURANGA FIFTY YEARS AGO We take the following paragraphs from the Bay of Plenty Times of July 22, 1889: “The Ladies’ Gymnasium Club is progressing finely, and some of the members are becoming expert athletes.”
“An occasional visitor to this district informs us that he has been rambling round for the last day or two, and can see many signs of permanent improvement here, especially on that portion of the-district known as Commons’ special settlement on the Omanawa road.”
Surely the writer of the following paragraph must have been smarting under a personal sting, as such general condemnation in the 80’s one can hardly credit:
“A person who takes an interest in the small bird nuisance informs us that he distributed poisoned wheat procured as directed, freely both in town and country, and has only found two dead sparrows. Have others been more fortunate, or is poisoned wheat, like marriage a failure.”
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 12801, 24 July 1939, Page 2
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160OUR Daily Features Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 12801, 24 July 1939, Page 2
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