WAIROA’S PLIGHT
CLOSED BAB DISORGANISES THE DISTRICT.
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NAPIER, May 21. Messrs R. M. Mcßhail, A. Beckett, T. Davey, W. Goldstone, A. A. Sinclair, J. S. Jessop, J. M. Taylor, Mataroa Hook, T. Powdrell, J. Mayo, and G. A. Easter, public body representatives from Wairoa, arrived in Napier by motor-car from Wairoa yesterday. To-morrow they will proceed to Wellington in connection with tho Wairoa Harbour arrangements. The bar has been closed for several weeks, with no hope of opening. All the supplies have come via Waikokapu, 33 miles by road, which is now impassable owing to the wet weather. For five weeks there were no supplies landed nt all. Tho freezing works are full with 120,000 carcases of sheep and 1000 cattle. Tho deputation wants tho immediate commencement of_ the railway from Waikokapu to Wairoa. The deputation’s trip from Wairoa to Napier took fourteen hours, over execrable roads.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10286, 22 May 1919, Page 5
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149WAIROA’S PLIGHT New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10286, 22 May 1919, Page 5
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