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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIII, Issue 78, 16 March 1923, Page 5

A recent visitor from Gisborne to Tauranga was' asked his chief impression of the Bay of Plenty centre. He said that two features had impressed him specially. One was the number of newly-built houses .that were dispensing with the ordinary fireplaces through the use that wag being made of electric power, and the was the novel sight of cows grazingin the main streets. He was informed that the council granted this right on payment of a small fee. Several Gisborne 1 - ites sat on the foreshore fronting the chief business thoroughfare and watched the traffic dodging the cows. Two cows were seen in front of a publichouse, 'drinking from the water-table, the water*of which seemed to "Be quite fresh. One cow stood for some minutes gazing at a shop window in which special bargains werte announced, but did not venture across the footpath.