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Robert Stewart (inset) hooked this fine 8 lb snapper while fishing from Rocks Road and Tony Wilkinson and George Henry (below) helped him bring it in. That's a clue, fishermen, They're about.

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Local dignitaries and pressmen from Nelson and Wellington about to board the Friendship to make the first landing at the newly upgraded Westport airport. This upgrading is a fine example of what can be accomplished by "togetherness". In this case the Westport Borough Council and Buller County Council worked together on a joint proposal to upgrade the airport. So impressed was the Government with their effort that it made a grant of $75,000 for the project. An earlier scheme estimated by the Ministry of Works to cost $220,000 had been rejected by the Government. The joint scheme cost $120,000 which, with the grant, cost the local people only $45,000. Well done, Buller.

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A section of the Nelson Golf Club's course fronting on to the sea had a severe battering by storms last month. To prevent further damage the club has strengthened the foreshore with a breakwater of rubble and tree trunks and stumps. Here a laden truck scoots across the fairway with its cargo.