A double distinction for the port of Patea was claimed by Mr. R. J. "Watt at the County Council jubilee luncheon. Patea was the weld's greatest cheese port, he said, and was the oldest harbour in the southern hemisphere because Turi's canoe landed; there, "and that must have been/ the oldest passenger vessel south of the Line."
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXI, Issue 4959, 23 February 1937, Page 5
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