“It will perhaps interest you to know that in the early days of Bluff it was necessary to go to Ruapuke Island, where the Rev Mr Wohlers lived, if one wished to get married, remaiked Mr W. A. Ott. addressing the delegates to the Girls’ Educational Week at Bluff on ths history of the port. “Fortunately conditions are different today.’ Mr Ott added that he was recently speaknig to a man wh<3 said he had to sail for Ruapuke to be married. On one occasion, years ago. a bridal party had all been drowned while travelling to Ruapuke in a whale boat.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 June 1939, Page 4
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