Beyond Alakaraka in 18Co, the district cl,-splayed an abundance of feed. 'Jhough the fiats were still, covered, with scrub rich grass was dispersed within the bushes and ah stock did wed. All told tliero were about seventy Europeans in tne Turn up a district in ISUL The first race meeting in Poverty Bay was hold at Kohanga Karcrea in the late CD’s. Trade with the Natives in the 60’s was by means of barter, the pakelias pa;, ing for maize, wheat and pigs by means of goods. Tlie exceptionally good quality of rye grass seed from Poverty Bay-was recognised in tho 70’s, when the price ranged from 7/- to 8/- per bushel here and outside the district it. fetched at times as much as 11/- per bushel.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 10473, 31 December 1927, Page 4 (Supplement)
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