Girl injured by stingray
marlin he found that the carcass had disappeared.
All that is known is that the fish was not taken out on the car ferry, the usual exit from the peninsula.
— February 4, 1969 The Governor-General, Sir Arthur Porritt, as a noted surgeon, saw several interesting cases at Kaitaia Hospital on Friday, among them Miss Pauline Lawrence, aged 12, daughter of Mrs. P. Lawrence,
Puriri Block, who is recovering from a stingray wound in a leg.
She received it while bathing at Tokerau Beach on Sunday. Superintendent Dr. D. Tree told Sir Arthur that he treats an average of about four stingray victims a year.
— February 11, 1969 A crate of empty beer bottles were smashed when they fell off an N.Z.R. truck in Commerce Street outside the Northland Age shortly after 10 a.m. today. They were swept up by the truck’s crew.
—February 4, 1969
of the tees on the Kaitaia Golf Club’s sand course at Ahipara.
After many months of planning and a lot of hard work by some of the members, pipe lines have been laid from a lake in Mr. Frank Masters’ property some 400 yards north of the club boundary.
The main line was dug by a contractor but all the subsidiary lines were dug by hand. Members laid all the piping themselves, and by doing so have kept a rather expensive system down to reasonable proportions.
close the course to players.
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