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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17143, 27 December 1929, Page 13

Hundreds of people visited Waikanae beach yesterday, and the attendance during (he afternoon was the largest seen there so far this summer. The weather was delightfully warm, enticing ai large crowd into the surf. Other ■beaches along tho Cow* were well patronised yesterday The four local service car companies had an exceptionally busy time during the few days before Christmas, hundreds of holiday-mukers travelling on the north, south, and Coast routes. One agent said to-day that it was some tuno ' since his company had experienced such a rush, while the traffic on the Lis-borue-Opotiki road Had been almost • three times as heavy as that for the corresponding period last year. Another company reported having brought more people here from Napier and 1 other southern towns than it had taken out. Tho pressure was maintained till yesterday on tho Coast >*oute, many passengers travelling to ±o "Wuia and other holiday resorts, 10-day *he bookings on all routes were back to normal.