When pointing out to the Minister of Public Works on Wednesday that certain lands near captain Cook Road Nethmton, had not been liable to flooding prior to the erection of the Waihou River stop-bank, Mr A. M. Samuel, M.P., mentioned that if the Minister would look up a note in the diary of Captain Cook he would find nn'iitioii of the fact that the great discoverer had landed near where the party were then standing and had walked several chains inland from the riverbank before the land bqcame marshy.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5404, 25 March 1929, Page 2
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