Auckland, as a port, stands on the wrong side of the Waitemata, according to a statement made by Mr. 11. B. Burnett, former superintendent of the Auckland Harbour Board, at a lunch eon of the Auckland Rotary Club. Auckland had grown up on the shallow side of the harbour. Had a harbour engineer done the planning be would Pave built the city and port on the North Shore, where there was deep water close Inshore. Mr. Burnett gave a brief history of the Waitemata and Manukau Harbours from the time they were known only to the Maoris, who used to proceed up the ’Jamaki River, cross by a 1000-yard portage to the Manukau, and thence proceed with another portage to the AVaikato River.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 149, 19 March 1936, Page 16
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