FIFTY YEARS' AGO
The following items of interest are taken from the Bay cf Plenty Times of 50 years ago: 'The s.s. Fingal had rather a bad time of it last week trying to get into Opotiki. The channel at the entrance is about the shape of an elongated Z and shallow at that. It took the Fingal about an hour and a half to get in. Pigs are becoming very numerous at the back of Te Puke, and pig hunts are quite common, the hunters rarely coming back without porkers. , Captain Sterling of the Salvatio h Army recently stationed here, has been ’shifted to Melbourne, where he takes -a higher rank. Travellers to the Te Puke mines complain of a dangerous curve on the southerly approach _to the Ranarapahoe bridge. It is to be hoped that the Te Puke Road Board will attend to the matter before there is & serious Occident.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 14639, 7 April 1948, Page 5
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152FIFTY YEARS' AGO Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 14639, 7 April 1948, Page 5
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