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Two pictures taken from the Richard and John, the Gisborne trawler, in the East Cape area, show one of the largest single catches ever recorded hereabouts. After a two-hour trawl, the net was surfaced, and dragged in to the ship's side. In the net were 12,000 lb of fish, mainly terakihi. (Photos by Peter Zame, Harris Street).

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Drilling for oil at Mangaone has ceased, mainly due to the enormous difficulty of getting the bore through a deep layer of bentonite formation, and the rig and machinery are being shifted to the Ruakituri valley for another try. Twice at Mangaone the bore had to be bypassed because of obstructions, and while it is not possible to express anything but regret that the effort was not successful, it's always possible to extract a laugh from the gloomiest situation, according to the cartoon characters above.
"He thinks the by-passes might have by-passed the oil"

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Well, if there's no oil about, it's still possible to find moa bones in the district. This one was found by Alan Bayliss, Aberdeen Road, during a hunting and tramping trip in the Urewera country.

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This house isn't quite as old as the moa, but very nearly so. It has been in the process of slow demolition for months on its site in Grey Street opposite Holmes Motors. The other day a truck came along and yanked out some of the piles, whereupon the old house, weary with the weight of the years, subsided gently to the ground.