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Otago Witness, Issue 3101, 20 August 1913, Page 56

Whitebait are making their appearance in the Manawatu River, and already Home fair nettings are recorded at Foxton. A Gisborne settler has placed an acre of laud at the disposal of the Department of Agriculture for seven years for the purpose of ascertaining what fruits are most suitable to the district. Two trees of each variety are to be planted. A lady reported to the Sydney police a few days ago that a bag containing £l2O worth of jewellery, which, ehe said, she had left on a chair in a city store, had been removed while she was making some purchases. A fow hours later a resident of Manly handed the ba£, with its contents intact, to the local police. He had found the bag lying on a seat on the beach at Manley, “ where it had been for three hours/’ said the police report.