WELLIMOTON-KAWHAI TRADE.
• ■ Sl I r ; i- f -letter;-.appeared in an: Auckland weekly last w«:k oxplaining the most suitable route-for the Kawhia railway, and stat- : if-taken: from To Kuiti'the Kawhia ■trade _wo»ld go to Wellington. .1 havo been hero, five, years .now, and if ■■ the Wellington morohants arid importers want our'trade they can: get it-, provided, they, sell cheaper than Auckland, .which those of us from the south .know.-they do. A. railway .from Wellington to Kawhia;,,TOuld not ; bo so -useful, as a steamer from Wellington.- Railway freight 'is ""Wi? - hl -S! r ,t? com against sea freight, and- if the Wellington people: want our trado they must/put.-a, small:coastal steamer ,on. After the railway is made, Kawhia, being the' best, port on .the,:iveßt. coast of tho North Island; .can supply : requirements cheaper than either Wellington or Auckland. When ; the railway is mado Kawhia will soon become'a port of considerable importance, as .-being,on-- the; west coast it is much 'nearer Australia than Auckland/ 'If tho Wellington merchants -want our trade let them!.put a steamer on at onco:—I am', etc.,' '-■■'" :■:'-■
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 406, 15 January 1909, Page 9
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176WELLIMOTON-KAWHAI TRADE. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 406, 15 January 1909, Page 9
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