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East Coast Page
By Frank Wynne-Jones
The Gisborne firm of Bock Products Ltd. recently erected a new shingle-crushing plant near Ruatoria, made from the steel girders which formerly supported the ex-Otoko railway bridge.
Where some of the shingle will come from....a river of rock in the Hikurangi area.
The flooded stream near Waima, which took the life of 15-year-old Clive Collins, of Tokomaru Bay, when he fell into it last month, and was swept out to sea.
A woman sorting out agar from amongst the seaweed at Tokomaru Bay.