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To the artist's brush or the photographer's camera, Taraheru mud is nothing to write to the Catchment Board about. Transformed by the silver radiance of the afternoon sun, it can be made to look as beautiful as sunsets, or seascapes--or gasworks.
Back in Gisborne for the school holidays, Noeline lewis (now Mrs Bruning), daughter of Mr and Mrs S. G. Lewis, Hapara Road, Gisborne, was caught by our camera on the Peel Street bridge, painting the view up the Taraheru. She is currently teaching art at the Wellington East Girls College.

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Taken from the same point, the view below shows how the camera recorded the scene with the tide at full ebb. A report is now being prepared on ways and means to beautify the Taraherus normally unsightly mud banks.