The fact that the hnr—or where the bar used to he—at tire entrance of the Waiiminin' River, now carries over 24 feet of water on the top. oi. spring: tides shows the wonderful improvement in dentil that has boon secured as the direct result of the Harbor Board’s pert improvement schemo (states the Chronicle). Mr John Morrison, one of the members of the hoard, can recall the time when ho, as a hov, over 50 v,cars ago, rode across the entrance on a; horse without the animal having to swim. At that time there was a stock route across tho river near the Imlny freezing works, the devtli at lew water being a couple of feet. ■
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Gisborne Times, Volume LIX, Issue 9574, 27 July 1923, Page 5
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