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A special sparkle of colour and a reminder of home was awarded Gisborne visitors to the Hastings Blossom Festival, by the Gisborne Highland Pipe Band. They are pictured here in the parade, heading a group of marching girls. the Grenadiers of Wairoa.

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When Volkswagen meets Volkswagen: Each providing a graphic story of their own, these two German-made vehicles both appeared on the Gisborne wharf at the same time, to be shipped away for repair on the same ship. In neither case was anyone seriously injured. One wag suggested that the driver of the commercial vehicle might have sealed up the dents with his own product!