Poverty Bay
Sir, —Your correspondent “A. 8. knows neither the district nor the good people of Poverty Bay when he writes upbraiding them for wanting a railway for a district so named. Let him read history and learn why Captain Cook thus applied the name to such a fertile country. I would have “A. 8. know that Gisborne and district has the finest climate in the Dominion, and the Poverty Bay flat lands are second only to the fern country of England. Does “A. 8. know that a recent settler of Poverty Bay died worth half a million pounds? Gisborne district for its size and isolated position is one of the wealthiest in the Dominion.--1 am. et.e.. B. BRIGHT. December 1.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 63, 8 December 1930, Page 13
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121Poverty Bay Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 63, 8 December 1930, Page 13
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