ONERAHI NEWS

Northern Advocate, 23 January 1929, Page 2

ONERAHI NEWS

(Prom Our Own Correspondent.)

An okl friend, in the person of Mr M. Windmill, is among the visitors arriving from Auckland last week on holiday bent. Mr Windrani (“Pop") passed his boyhood in Onerahi and has been kept busy since his arrival in looking up old friends. Ho is accompanied by his chum, and both are having a very joilly time as tiro guests of ,tho former’s grandmother, Mrs W. Mason, senior.

After tvpendng a very jolly holiday season with all the joys of sea-bath-ing, etc., thrown in, Mr and Mrs Crawford and family returned home to Whangarci and the work-a-day world on Monday. Mr and Mrs Blanshard left again for Whangarci and business, after a quite delightful month’s holiday. Fine weather prevailed practically throughout, and the pleasures of the foreshore were thoroughly enjoyed. After an extended seaside visit, camping in her bungalow, at Waikaraka Bay, Mrs Mcßeth, accompanied by Master Mcßeth, returned home to Hikurangi on Saturday. A splendid time was spent among the pleasures of the seashore. ONERAHI-TAMATERAU ROAD, i Formation work on the above and the clearing away of the big slips below Beasley's is now practically finished. The road as formed, offers a splendidly level grade right through from its junction with the Tamaterau-Pama-Heads route, and will form an ideal approach, for visiting motorists and business vehicles coming to the township from that direction. Metalling, I understand, will be put in hand shortly, and when that is completed the road is likely to prove one of the most useful in 'the district. DEEP-SEA VISITORS. A small school of iblackfish whales came up harbour on Tuesday, probably on a. voyage of exploration. They came up-channel, playing leap-frog like a school of porpoises, their black hides glistening, polished, in the sun as they turned. Onlookers were disappointed when.the four playful deep-sea denizens, instead of gamboling and playing “tig” in the vicinity of the wharf, took the island channel and passed from sight on the way to Mangapai. AN OUTSIDE FLOUNDER. How big do flounders grow if allow-, ed by their host of enemies to reach the maturity of a good old age? The question is suggested by a specimen secured by a party of fishermen when netting for flatfish, on the beach in front of the railway station. The fish in question was too big to go into a kerosene tin ape] measured 2ft Idn in length by 10 inches across. By far the largest flounder this scribe has ever seen; it would make a dinner for four big men. DROUGHTY CONDITIONS. There is no apparent near cessation of the heaf-wave we have endured Tor the last three weeks. Morning still breaks to a blazing sun, in a cloudless sky, or one that is misted with a haze that seems to make things even hotter. The very breeze that blows comes with the breath of a sirocco. Pastoralists and gardeners are loud in complaint of desiccating grasslands and vegetables 'that wilt for want of moisture. Pull use is being made of the town water supply,, but after all the hose generally fails to reach where it is most wanted, and dire things are foxcold if present conditions continue. But think of the other fellow, and the grand harvest that is falling to the lot of the ice-cream man.