OUR Daily Features

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXX, Issue 13622, 21 April 1942, Page 2

OUR Daily Features

Extracts taken from the Bay of Plenty Times of fifty years ago read as follows:

"The road between Te Puke and Rotorua is now being used by a considerable number of persons, and should be looked after in a more thorough manner by the power that be. Only last week, a party proceeding to Rotorua by buggy was stuck up by a dead bullock lying on the road, and which we understand is still unburned."

"Last week while our member Mr Kelly, was in Tauranga, he was interviewed with reference to the making of the Kaimai-Cambridge road fit for wheeled traffic. We are informed the matter is to come before the next session of parliament in the form of a petition from the natives who live in the vicinity of the road." "There are now on view at Mr C. G. Carter's, Strand, a number of medals won by a late Tauranga boy, J. N. Phillipps, for swimming races and feats. It is only about five years ago that the little fellow learned to swim in the baths here, a process during which his antics and pluck caused amusement and admiration in the onlookers, the progress has been great and rapid, judging by the number of his prizes." "Yesterday morning an almost complete solar halo was visible from about 7 to 8 o'clock a small portion of the lower limb only was obscured by heavy clouds."

"The sale of the estate known as Woodlands, at Katikati, comprising 1000 acres with extensive buildings has been disposed of through the agency of Mr J. A. Clarke to Mr T. G. Marlow, who takes possession immediately."