FIFTY YEARS’ AGO
Tho following items of interest are taken from The Say of Plenty Times oi* £)0 ycnis 7 , Mr T D Hunter has in his market porden rhubarb plants, the leaves or arc quite throe feet across and almost circular. Mr Hunter has W the plants for a number o:fc years and ho far there has Been no Si T n he f cro 0 p d of wheat at Rangawaqa, ! Matakana* and other settlements m | that direction, is very_ gooc thio Se The n natives of the Maungatapu settlement intend erecting a laigc carved meeting house there nS i fnr that purpose have just wnmht down Horn the Oropi bush brought - to act as the ridge note The building will take a con-P-t uiwimp to construct and will a d6 htless 'move an attraction to nSSSs as the old styles of work 1 will be adhered to.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 14572, 16 January 1948, Page 5
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150FIFTY YEARS’ AGO Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 14572, 16 January 1948, Page 5
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