EARLY HISTORY
TO THE iDIIOR.
Sir,—ln your issue of Tuesday you referred , !to a statement that Wellington owes ite first settlement to a decision at a Now Zealand Company's meoting selecting it on account of its greater nearness to Australia than other parts of New Zealftnd. May" I say that I liavo read a letter (official copy) among tlio New Zoato"? S /0, mPi'in>''s records, written by Col. Wakeiield, the company's principal agent, m the cabin of the Tdry, to Captain Mom fermth on tho deck above him, directing the, latter that if he could not make the Kaipara, where he expected to meet his ■consort, he was to sail for Port Nicholson. As I have stated, this does not necessarily contradict the former 'statement, but tho impression loft in my mind by tho reading was that Kaipara was to have been the eceno of operations, not Weiluigtdn. The letter referred to is stored in Wellington with, other interesting history.—l am, etc. .2«U August. CLERK-
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Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 49, 26 August 1921, Page 4
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165EARLY HISTORY Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 49, 26 August 1921, Page 4
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