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Mrs. G. H. Swan, Wanganui, and her daughter, are on a short holiday visit .to Napier and are very greatly imprJssed with the town, especially in the Parker fountain, which they declare to he wonderful. Mrs. Swan, who is the widow of the late Mr. G. H. Swan, ifor many years Mayor of Napier, and the originator of Napier 's fine Marine Parade ,recalls the early efforts of her husband, to have this work carried out.
It is not generally known now-a-days that Mr. Swan went to Wellington ati his own expense, interviewed the Government on the matter, and eventuallyj secured sanction for the work of con^ struction of the sea-wall from Cootef road to Emerson street to be .done by prison labour in charge of the gaoler, with the stone supplied from the Government quarry, so that the chief eost to the town was the supplying of the' eement. 1 • Like her late husband, Mrs. Swan, has always been greatly interested in the development of Napier.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 34, 24 February 1937, Page 13
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