THE WHAREAMA.
A STRING OF OBJECTIONS
A correspondent writes that he has known the Whareama River and district for a great many years, and that he is of opinion that the suggested fishing ground and seaside resort wouid prove a failure. Water, for drinking purposes, he urges, it would be next to impossible to obtain, while fish, in limited quantities only, could be caught, but in certain seasons of the year. Sea-bath-ing would be out of the question on account of the numerous sharks that frequent the locality mentioned. Indeed,, our correspondent declares, that the place is simply infested with sharks. The native reserve is most exposed, and howling gales sweep across it at tremendous velocity. In fact, so far as we can gather from our correspondent, anyone who wa3 sufficiently fool-hardy as to camp on the native reserve would run a great risk of being blown into the sea and eaten by sharks. Finally, we are informed that it would be necessary to make a long and expensive road, "and that as a sea-side resort purely, Castlepoint would be far superior to Whareama.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9035, 28 February 1908, Page 5
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184THE WHAREAMA. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9035, 28 February 1908, Page 5
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