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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17125, 4 December 1929, Page 11

' Some 107,000 super feet of timber and 700 po§ts comprised the major portion of the cargo on the s.s. I'arcra, which arrived here on Monday evening from Greymonth. The vessel called at Tokomaru Bay en route to discharge a small quantity of coal. This afternoon the Parera loaded 377 sheep. The steamer sails to-night for Westport. .. : .i ! * ' A large sting-ray wga seen at the tow'n end of the diversion cut this looming. The fish was evidently seeking m outlgt the spa, and explored more .than one branch of the vnain channel More it was lost sight of. Stingrays are reputedly timid add are unlikely to prove dapgerous unless taken unawares and startled into retaliatory action* However, bathers using the chaaV of the diversion would be well •drisU to be alert.