By the Seashore

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23157, 1 October 1938, Page 8 (Supplement)

By the Seashore

"HEAR ANNE SHIRIJEY,—Before I came h6re I used to live in Rakauis situated on the east side of Kawhia Harbour. My cousins and I used to have a great time in a canoe fishing. On weekends we used to go for a joy ride half way round the harbour and back just in time for milking. After milking, if it was a warm evening, we, got our gwimming togs, and would go down the beach and have a good bathe, because th.e water is much warmer at night. ' , Sometimes when tide came in at about eight o'clock in the evening, if we wanted to go torching for flounders we had to eat our tea hurriedly and get everything done before we could go. To make our torches we used to get big old lorry tyres and cut; them into strips about three feet long and six inches wide, and they had to be very dry otherwise they would not byrn.

One night we set off on our way to start our torching. When we got to where we should' start we found that the tide was a lone way out so we decided to go on to a little island which my cousin knew well. When we had finished torching we counted our flounders which were a. good lot. We went home and 'iooked forward to fried flounder for breakfast.—-Yours sincerely, Jimmy Ngahiwi, Waitomo Caves (15).'