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Gisborne's set of traffic lights at the Gladstone Road-Peel Street intersection received a further battering last month when a right-turning motorist mounted the concrete centre island and hit the light standard squarely amidships. Damage to the lights was slight.

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When Mrs A. Rocard, of 6 Kowhai Street, returned to her home on a sunny Saturday last month, she found a strange visitor on her front lawn -- a rapidly melting snowman......presumably the efforts of friends who had been for a visit to the Wharerata snowfields.

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Although the snowfall was an enjoyable novelty for many Gisborne residents, the severe weather resulted in heavy lambing losses for many farmers, and in damage to power lines and communications. P and T staff are pictured renewing a fallen telephone pole near Muriwai.