A picturesque feature of the countryside scenery on the Hauraki Plains just now is the luxuriance with which.toetoe plumes deck the landscape, states the "Herald.", In every direction thousands of the feathery . growths . meet the eye." All along the miles .of the straight; stretch of road from Waitakaruru to the Pipiroa ferry are to be seen hedges of toetoe, mostly marking boundaries or the. margins of Government drains. In some instances "_ the nodding lines reach for nearly a mile, a glorious exhibition of some, of Nature's most dainty .handiwork.. '
"My. son works very long heurs.and he can't be expected to bicycle backa wards-and forwards from- Ifaiapoi every day," said a woman in a maintenance ease in tho Christcluirch Magistrate's Court. "When I was young I% rode ten miles a day, and worked twelve hours," said Mr. H. P. .Lawry, ■ 8.M.. "Yes, but you didn't ■yrprk a« hard as my sou does,'' replied VhH woman. ...;.. . .. .
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 96, 27 April 1929, Page 11
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