A correspondent of tho Wairoa Guardian W.-itea: —"Mr Gaddum says Waikokopu would bo a oheap port. Undoubtodly it would, with Us deep water 'aud safe bar' bor. Why should tho pcoplo of this oounty pay indirectly for tbo Napier breakwater '! Every pound of tl;ur, tea or sugar, every halo of ff.tx or wool, oycry carcaso of boof or mutton hs3 to pay its quota, and this must be bo long us we trade with Nupior. Napior ptteplo lock on tbo Wairoa trade as u soft thing and a certainty fo: a long lime, implying llret wo uro incapablo oi helping curative?, and really sometimes it would appear &3 if they weto no; far wrong."
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1831, 11 August 1906, Page 3
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