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The Gisborne Photo News

 

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Around Town

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Gisborne's new High School on the corner of Lytton Road and Hapara Road, near the new Lytton Road bridge, is making good progress, and is scheduled to take its first pupils at the beginning of the school year on February 1. Picture shows the big classroom block as it was last week.

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The pride and joy of Gisborne's main entrance, the beautiful avenue of phoenix palms along Gladstone Road, is slowly disappearing in the name of progress. But the telegraph and power poles seem to grow thicker than ever.

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What surely must be the wettest summer on record in Gisborne has made many residents feel they are iiving on the West Coast in a nor'west year. Almost every day our phone rings to say, "Come and photograph our flooded street". This photo of Collins Street last week illustrates what has happened to many another Gisborne street in recent times.