WAIROA AND GISBORNE.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 874, 25 April 1903, Page 4

WAIROA AND GISBORNE.

OU.lt NEIGH BOBS. Our Watix". contemporary saaic? : "The people of Gisborne are becoming alive io the pm-sihilitics of the Wairoa

trade, ami le- v mean io get a connection to Auckland i,' energetic action can secure it, and when unci: they do Wairoa will be mined on, ami Napier will surely lorn a iterative Lade. Already many of tiie Nultv't . rood Kuala people import from Gisborne even, end do it at a saving on

Napier rut.'#. What wan'd it be could wo deal u.irec: with Auckland ? The fault will not be with people of this district. Wo leave pleaded for years for a public recognition of the shameful neglect of the past, but Napier has not risen to the occasion and helped us us it should have done. Will the business men now cease their apathy, and cast their influence into the scale in favor of the metalling of our read and the completion of the river works on the lines indicated by Mr Napier Bell in his reports’ It is pleasing to note that the people of Wairoa are becoming aware of the importance to them of a closer connection with Gisborne, and we hope that they will lose no opportunity in that direction. With Wairoa's lag harbor scheme we have no

sympathy, as i: would be so costly and so doubtful of success that it would be madness to take i: in hand ; but Wairoa has good openings, the be-st outlet being through Gisborne.