Whitebait have now commenced to come lip the Molyneux River, an* 1 large numbers of fishermen are to be seen daily at Kaitangata with nets catching these small delicacies. No largo catches have been reported owing to the cold weather and tfrty state of the water.
Though It Is more than 40 years since the sailing ship Ben venue (after which the ilenvenue Cliffs at the northern end of Caroline liny, Timaru, are named) went aahore and became a total wreck, some of her remains are still to be seen at low water, j
As evidence of the fact that land values in South Canterbury are slowly but surely returning to normal, a property of several hundred acres, for which £3O per acre was refused in the boom period, has just been sold for a little more than half that price.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3782, 7 September 1926, Page 14
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