ISOLATION OF WAIROA
IMPOSSIBLE TO GET SUPPLIES. By Telegraph—Press Association. Napier, May 21. Messrs. R. 31. 3FPhail, A. Beck'ott, T. Davey, W. Goldstone, A. A. Sinclair, J. S. Jessop, J. 31. Taylor, Mataroa Hook, T. Powdrell, J. Mayo, and G. A. Easter, public body representatives from Wairoa, ' arrived in Napior by motor-car from Wairoa yesterday. To-morrow they will proceed to Wellington in connection with the Wairoa Harbour arrangements. Tho 'bar has been closed for several weeks, with no hopo of opening. All supplies have to come via Woikokopu, 33 miles by road, which is now impassable owing to the wet weather. For fivjo weeks there wero 110 supplies landed at all. Tho freezing works uro full,* with 120,000 carcasses of sheep and 1000 cattle. Tho deputation wants tho immediate commencement of the railway from Wnikokopu to Wairoa.
The deputation's trip from Wairoa to Napier took 14 'hours, over execrablo roads. >
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 203, 22 May 1919, Page 5
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150ISOLATION OF WAIROA Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 203, 22 May 1919, Page 5
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