Roving Camera

Another of Gisborne's aging wooden bridges was closed to vehicular traffic last month. It was the Roebuck Road bridge across the Taruheru River (right and below). With its closing, the Taruheru could be crossed by cars only at Peel Street and Nelson Road, more than two miles apart. Fortunately the bridge remained open for bicycles, so that the traffic most concerned, schoolchildren, were not effected.

Immediate plans are to be made for a new bridge, and the situation will be relieved a little when the Lytton Road bridge is finished.

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A rare fish is this one caught by two Gisborne skin divers, W. Findlay and W. Patterson near Waihau Bay. It has been identified as a demoiselle (Chromis dispilus), only two specimens of which had been caught previously in New Zealand.

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A maintenance seal of the northern side of Gladstone Road from Grey Street to Roebuck Road produced this picture of work near the Roebuck Road end. A contractor is applying hot bitumin, and council men are spreading metal chips.