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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4628, 21 November 1923, Page 3

‘ A lad of nine years of age had an unusual experience in Wairoa recently (relates a correspondent of the Napier. Telegraph). He was some distance from home and was given a lift by a motor lorry. In spite of the rough going the little chap went to sleep and the driver forgot him until he had passed through Wairoa and had reached Opoito, thirteen miles away frpm the boy’s home- The little fellow then set out to tramp back again, and duly arrived. When he got home he found that search parties were out looking for -him. A sad obituary has to be chronicled to-.lay (says the Greymouth “Star” of Wednesday last). Lingering gamely through an agonising period of neglect and starvation, struggling bitterly to regain its foothold on the earth—another public organisation that started well has passed through its death agonies and gone forth to the Valhalla of brave beginners and bad finishers—the Greymouth Beautifying Association is non est, which is Latin for “stone dead.” So, in spite of the grass in the streets, and the drab appearance of the town’s chief points of interest, the Greymouth Beautifying Association, whose birth a year ago was heralded with a fanfare of trumpets and bright talk from big men, has faded away—a little “unwanted.”