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Here's photographic evidence of "one that got away". Watersiders aboard the lighter Agnes, pictured here alongside the cargo-liner Port Hobart, spotted a shark, and decided to catch it. They almost did, but it flipped off the boat-hook, snapped the line, and escaped.

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As Gisborne's population and trade steadily increase, so does the traffic load on the main street. This picture, taken in Gladstone Road on a Friday afternoon, shows queue of cars stretching from Grey Street to Peel Street.

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Striking example of sea erosion along the coast north of Gisborne can be seen at Sponge Bay, where beach is creeping close to fence-line.

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The Gisborne & Rotorua branches of the Maori Affairs Dept broke even when Rotorua basketball and Rugby teams paid a return visit here. Gisborne won the basketball, 14-12) Rotorua won the Rugby, 10-8.
Members of the Gisborne basketball team (back row) were: Audrey Clews, Dee Taylor, Elizabeth Crawford, Marie Ward, Charmaine Swann, Heather Clews, Kath. Lardelli, Val Trueman, Trudi Annabell. Referee at left is Miss Ward.