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A brightly-coloured red and white toadstool, which could have come direct from Disneyland, pictured in the garden of Mrs A. Legg, of Ranfurly Street. It was found at Tokomaru Bay.

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A piece of driftwood with striking similarities to a bird was polished and varnished by Mr and Mrs Dave Smith to make an attractive mantlepiece ornament.

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When City Council workmen were cleaning the roadside ditch in lower Aberdeen Road, this was one of the eels they found! This deep ditch crosses the footpath twice (one crossing can be seen in background near the power pole). Recently a lady who had but lately come to live in Gisborne fell into the ditch in the dark.......a hazard of life on the frontier!

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Happy group of workers peeling their way through a mountain of potatoes which were used to feed the large gathering of Maori Catholics who assembled at Manutuke at Easter for the Hui Aranga.