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Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 297, 14 December 1892, Page 5

The export of maize from this port to Sydney still maintains considerable dimensions, and each steamer sailing hence to Australia, has generally a large consignment of maize on the freight list. The majority of the grain comes up here from the Bay of Plenty districtts by coastal steamers and sailers. Several" hundred sacks of maize are to be forwarded this evening by the Waihora, for Sydney, mosb of which came up from the island of Motiti by the cutter Eleanor and ketch Tokorau. The crop of this last season at the locality mentioned exceeded 4,000 sacks, and it is stated that the area under crop has. been growing maize for the last twenty years, without the aid of any manures. The island labours under one drawback, inasmuch that the loading of vessels ha 3to be accomplished in an open roadstead, which involves considerable danger to tbe vessel. The maize yield has, on the whole, been an excellent one this season in the Easb Coast districts.