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Otago Witness, Issue 3987, 12 August 1930, Page 79

Twenty 7 years ago probably traveller* along the Alountain road at Lepperton saw a pinus insignis seedling growing from the top of an old puriri stump (says the Taranaki Herald). To-day the pine has grown into a large forest tree. The steady increase in the size cf its trunk has split open in several places the puriri stump, and the roots of the pine close to the surface are slowly but surely lifting the stump out of the ground. “ Last night was the fifth time I have been at the pictures since I went away to the war in 1914.” declared one Afantateparu settler when admitting that he had visited the talkies in Afovrinsville a fewdays ago (states the Auckland Star). Another farmer in the Kiwitahi district, a few miles away, went one better, however, when he said: “It was the first picture I have been to since the war.” Botk farmers said they had been too busy o* then- farms to bother about “movies'” or “ talkies,” but their wives had insisted on going to Alorrinsville to see “The Goli Diggers of Broadway.”