''The poor North" will soon be a term that has become obsolete as regards, the country north of Auckland, says the 'Star.' Of late much has been written about the various capabilities of the North, but at a meeting of the City Council it got its certificate as to the true value of the ground, and it was resolved, on the recommendation of the City Engineer, to get ten tons of soil from Port Albert (similar to Bulli) for the purpose of repairing the cricket pitches at the Domain and Victoria Park. After that, who dare say anything against the utility of the land in the North. When it was first decided to import soil from Bulli, Mr R. Farrell remarked that it was an insult to "God's Own Country" to suggest that therd was not soil here equal to making a cricket pitch. Port Albert has saved the situation.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9072, 24 April 1908, Page 4
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