THE FIRST EXPORT.
We have long exported oil and other valuable produce brought liere from the coast, in exchange for the various articles obtained from the merchants of the port ; but we believe, until- now, no article produced within the Port has been shipped to a foreign country or neighbouring colony for sale. On Tuesday, the Li dy Leigh commenced our export trade,' by taking to Sydney 20 tons of very fine potatoes, grown by Mr. Molesworth upon the Hutt. Mentioning the Hutt, we may observe that we imderstand that fifteen tons of potatoes to the acre have been obtained, and that a small patch of wheat, upon measurement, showed the crop to be equal to ninety bushels to the acre. Poor, pitiable, starving, helpless, Port Nicholson settlers !
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New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator, Volume III, Issue 139, 7 May 1842, Page 2
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