The camp this season at Waihi Bench is the largest on record. Some 400 people at the one time were surf bathing on Sunday. The first tennis courts on the beach were opened bv the Mayor on Saturday afternoon, the bowling green .is ready for grass, and electric light will shortly be introduced throughout the reserve. Over 150 cottages and 60 tents are fully occupied. Between 20 and. 25 counterfeit Bank of Australasia £1 notes have been recovered by the Auckland police since Christmas Eve. This number had been Recovered during the week-end. Three spurious notes were detected at Ellerslie races, and one at the trots on Saturday, but in each case the person concerned was able to give a reasonable and satisfactory explanation of how they were obtained. Another was passed on a suburban bus.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17454, 31 December 1930, Page 11
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