MAIN HIGHWAY THROUGH WHAKATANE
Sir, —"Mud Flat" is truly flat —as flat as a pancake—he evidently is not a landsman for he is all at sea. As a pessimist and dictator he says "'that is that" time and again (he gives no reasons) and expects us l» take notice of his dogmatisms. The ship "Toa * was not lost for want of water —I emphatically contradict him. That vessel was driven back by the force bf 'the stormy breakers ami it was the plentitude of water on the bar that saved her. ?> Ask her" skipper Captain Cathcart. Keep to the truth "Mud IFlat*' —don't sling untruthful slush about. Yours etc. MAIN HIGHWAY THROUGH WHAKATANE.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 58, 4 September 1939, Page 4
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