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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18920, 23 January 1936, Page 15

Passengers from Napier to Gisborne by the East Coast Airways' plane yesterdav included Mesdames Polaka and S. C. Wells; Misses June Potaka, K. Sheriff, and Wells; Messrs. S. C. Wells. C. Jensen, Sime, J. C. Quigley, Moroney and Masters A. Jensen and Wells. Amongst those who travelled to Napier were Mesdames Connie and K. T. Chrisp; Messrs. Connie, Silverwood, J. ''ui'jley, J, Glynn, M. Springhall, and R. Morton; Messrs, W. Richards, I). VV. Coleman M.P., J. Lyle, I'.. Ilree, and Master David Chrisp. The days when water was a luxury in Canterbury are remembered by Mrs Ce. E. Goldsmith,! «f Slav cloy, who. celebrated her eighty-seventh birthday last week-end. She told a reporter in an interview that while she was living at Chertsey. mi Mid-Canterbury, about th.! late 'seventies, there was no rain for five months and once, which she was at Sherwood. 3(& was charged for a lank, ful of water, which was very muddy anil which was carted from the Rakaiti River. Often Hiev had to refuse waggoners a drink for their teams. Then tamji the water-races.