It's Been a Long Winter ... But
Spring
Is Just Around the Corner!

For nearly two months the weather was a touchy subject for Gisborne folk. As each day dawned wet, or cold, or wet and cold, or just plain miserable, the mounting rainfall began eating into their good spirits like radiation from an H-bomb. Unwarmed by their old friend the sun, which appeared to have gone for good, they contemplated with justified gloom a procession of major and minor disasters which the rain brought with it, such as losing the railway into the sea at Waikokopu (page 38), the airport being out of action for a week, having to open the city's first new bridge for decades in an unpleasant downpour (page 4), and playing the annual match against the Olympians in the wet (page 6).

The only consolation was that spring must follow winter, as sure as day follows night. It is even possible that by the time this "Photo News" is in your hands, the sun will be shining again, the birds singing, and the flowers blooming in earnest.

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First Signs: Brief sunshine finds bees busy on rain-drenched poppy in Botanical Gardens.

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Interlude For Spring Mrs Bell gathering daffodils at Sponge Bay.

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Return to Winter: Peel Street bridge shrouded in thick fog.