Short Holiday

We have been away visiting Havelock North, Napier, Hastings, Whakatane, Ohope Beach and Te Awamutu.
We went to Havelock then on to Wakatane and stayed at Ohope with the plan to visit White Island. Sadly we couldn't as the weather was too bad. We will probably make another attempt next year. However, we stayed with friends in Te Awamutu for a couple of days which was terrific as we did a lot of catching up with old times.

But the interesting thing was the house numbering system. Rather than the usual one it numbers houses on the metres from the end of the road. Our friends house is in a short grove and as they lived at 85 our first thoughts were that we had the wrong number. As we entered the street we saw the first house was number 10 with the next number 26!!

He later explained the reason for the metric numbering system is that it enables each house to be located quickly by electronic tracking systems for emergency services. I had never heard of it before and he believes about 3 other NZ towns have it.

Our general feeling was that most of the small country towns are looking pretty prosperous.

Onto religion - RUGBY - It is now all on and we can only hope that all the planning comes to fruition. As for the jersey colour problem. We have played in BLACK for over 100 years and these other ratbag countries are now trying to change their traditional colours to match ours. I hope it really backfires on them on the the field.