About as significant an indication as anything we know of, of the progress of Napier, is the increase of late in the number of public traps plying between the town and the spit, and the town and the Railway station. There are now 25 traps constantly at work, and the total number, including those temporarily out of work, is over 30. About four years ago there were not more than half-a-dozen. Two years ago was the golden harvest for trapmen. There were not more than ten altogether running, and the Napier people were spending, it was estimated, £30 per day on the average in trap hire. Now their number has more than doubled, and the expenditure of the public, though it has increased greatly, has not increased in quite the same proportion.
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XX, Issue 3823, 16 January 1877, Page 2
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