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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 96, 21 January 1928, Page 26

Thames, which has the distinction attached to the possession of 13 hotels and 13 churches, may shortly lose ono of its two officered railway stations (reports an exchange). The Thames station sent ed the needs of the travelling community in the mining boom days, but the growth of the business area at the southern end of the borough following the expansion of the dairy farming industry, necessitated the ereclion of a station at Thames South, which nowhandles the bulk of the passetigel and goods traffic. It is reported (bat. Iho Railway Department contemplates the conversion of the Thames station into a (lag station, thus centralising business at Thames South. The anchorage now used in "Ngawhaknwhilu Bay, in Tennyson Inlet, by the Tamahine on her week-end trips (o I’clorus Sound is described as a delightfully picturesque spot, a forest fringed basin, backed by the towering Lookout Peak I'savs the "Marlbooriigh Express"! The depth of this placi’d pool is such that the Tnmahinc is able 1 onppro.m-h with startling nearness to the bold, beech-clad headlands. Thei.-e are some 20.0110 acres of national forest reserve in the locality, in which there are some of the finest nikau palms and pungas to he seen anywhere in New Zealand. Ans. tralian visitors who were amongst the passengers on the Tamahine’s last trip were delighted with the maze of scenic charm of the New Zealand bush as represented in the Sounds. There is a new esculent coming called tlm blueberry. It is. in ils best development. "as big as a cherry, splendid for pies, and ns delicious will) cream ns strawberries. ’’ The "Now Zealand Smallholder” reports that several members of the Now Zealand Nursery Trades Association have been testing plants ol the most improved American hybrids and these have promised well experimentally in North Auckland. Palmerston North. Lower Hutt. Christchurch, am! Southland. The fruit grows on n thornless. gooseberry-like bush in clusters, and ils wide climatic rance, from frosiv Southland to tenid North Auckland, gives it a special value. It is propagated by mound layering.