A Fish for Tea We waited patiently on the banks of the Hokanga for the car ferry. Miss Paitai caught sight of a fisherman in a dinghy a little further along … ‘Why it's Fanny! Hullo Fanny, how are you?’
she called. Fanny slowly turned round to see who was calling her. She pulled in her line and rowed over to where we stood, ‘Hullo Mere my dear,—our heads as a large schnapper came hurtling over here, have a fish for your tea tonight!’ We ducked to land on the shore close by. I don't know what I expected in the way of a car ferry, but it had bumped alongside when I was still looking out over the water for it. This was definitely not what I had visualised. However, the Hokianga car ferry it was. After tucking her fish in the boot, Miss Paitai drove her car on to this mirage and we sailed across to Rawene where we were met by Miss Toia, her sister Mrs Sarich, and several of the women from Kokohuia, which was our next meeting-place.
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Te Ao Hou, March 1962, Page 19
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181A Fish for Tea Te Ao Hou, March 1962, Page 19
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