Four petrol road-rollers ordered bv the No. 5 District Highways Council for the Hawke’s Bay County Council and Dantievirkc County Council for road work on main highways have arrived and arc awaiting delivery at Port Ahuriri (states the Dannevirkc “News”). The newly put down bitumen surface on France Road, Napier, is a distinct improvement as far as motor traffic is concerned, but horses find the innovation by no means advantageous (states the "Daily Telegraph”). The trouble is partly caused by the fine, rolling shingle. put down upon the tarred surface. This is troublesome to pedestrians as well as to the horses. Evening swimming has become verv popular in Napier during the recent hot weather, and the. baths, the sea, and the Tutaekuri River have been freely patronised (states the “Daily Telegraph”). For those who do not favour the baths the breakwater bathing beach is the most popular. UnfortunateL* its area is rather restricted. There are’ more rocks about than there were formerly, arid the jellyfish are a
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 78, 26 December 1925, Page 3
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