But there are difficulties in living at Takapuna. One of these is putting up with a hasty breakfast in this style in order to catch the bus — IBlobbs, having taken a suburban residence at Lake Takapuna, realises how enjoyable is the trip to and fro. ' Can't understand,' says Blobbs, ' how those other people exist in a stuffy town jn weather like this.' tad'then, hungrily finding eventually, that he has just managed to miss his boat by thirty seconds, and has to wait half an- But, happy thought! Blobbs takes the advice of a friend and invests in a ' biko.' Now, he has hour for the next steamer. 'And this mail day, too, and we are so busy.' time to take his breakfast and catch the boat with live minutes to spare—easily. But alasl Things soon revert to the old order. Blobbs begins to cut it fine and miss.his twenty-to-nine boat relisiouslv. But he -wouldn't mind it half so much only that he had to come away without breakfast. Eureka! Blobbs has found it—that is, a way of combining breakfast with the ride in to the Shore. Now he never comes to town hungry, and he sometimes catches the boat. Kapai, Lake Takapuna !

Observer, Volume XVI, Issue 948, 27 February 1897, Page 17

But there are difficulties in living at Takapuna. One of these is putting up with a hasty breakfast in this style in order to catch the bus —

IBlobbs, having taken a suburban residence at Lake Takapuna, realises how enjoyable is the trip to and fro. ' Can't understand,' says Blobbs, ' how those other people exist in a stuffy town jn weather like this.'

tad 'then, hungrily finding eventually, that he has just managed to miss his boat by thirty seconds, and has to wait half an- But, happy thought! Blobbs takes the advice of a friend and invests in a ' biko.' Now, he has hour for the next steamer. 'And this mail day, too, and we are so busy.' time to take his breakfast and catch the boat with live minutes to spare — easily.

But alasl Things soon revert to the old order. Blobbs begins to cut it fine and miss. his twenty-to-nine boat relisiouslv. But he -wouldn't mind it half so much only that he had to come away without breakfast.

Eureka! Blobbs has found it — that is, a way of combining breakfast with the ride in to the Shore. Now he never comes to town hungry, and he sometimes catches the boat. Kapai, Lake Takapuna !