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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13672, 13 February 1908, Page 5

"Such disadvantages arc the more to be regretted, seeing that the scenery of the WanganuJ River is truly magnificent, far superior to the Rhine, and were the. boats run in a competent manner, even the charge of £2 15s might be overlooked," writes Mr. Owen O'Conor to the Wellington Post. He gives details of a trip which lie commenced on December 16, and supplies a long category of discomforts suffered by himself and, other passengers by the rive? boats. The tribulations included a soaking in a leaky Maori canoe, into which six or seven their were put, because other vessels were crowded, and involved much fasting and abstaining. » He discovered that Wanganui River, as well as Wanganui town, was & centre of iia festins: industry* ,