Century-old Fishing Town
A few miles' outside of Sydney, off the Botany road, there is a little community which has resisted the encroachment of the bustling world for more than a century. Known as Fishing Town, it has about 200 inhabitants, all •descendants of British pioneers who were the first men to fish systematically in what is now acknowledged to be one of the most treacherous bays on the coast. There are the Smith, the Duncans, the Jones, the Thompsons, the Bagnalls and the Johnsons, whose fathers and grandfathers establised the village. In small weatherboard dwellings generation after generation has been born, ani most of the cottages there are family /dbles epitomising the history of the households.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 62, 15 March 1938, Page 5
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117Century-old Fishing Town Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 62, 15 March 1938, Page 5
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