The Nelson Mail’s restless junior reporter has again been seeing things. “It would be difficult to imagine,” he remarks in a solemn paragraph, “ a more gorgeouslycoloured sunset than that of Saturday evening. From the roads around the harbour particularly there was a sight not soon forgotten by those who find pleasure in the glories of a sunset. The rippled sea, blushing with the reflection of the sky, stretched away to the richly-purpled mountains whose outline contrasted sharply, but set off to better advantage, the splendour of the fiery sweep of colour, as the sinking sun lighted up the mottled sky and rolling clouds which capped the western ranges, and set the blazing heavens in an opal-green frame which skirted away into heavy bruise-black storm clouds on either side.” Not only the rippled sea should be blushing !
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Putaruru Press, Volume VI, Issue 237, 17 May 1928, Page 8
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