“In the early days of Taranaki no one ever expected that the port of New Plymouth would accommodate large oceangoing vessels of 12,000 tons, and handle direct all the produce of North Taranaki, ’’ said Mr J. S. Connett, when speaking at the sixty-fifth wedding anniversary of Mr and Mrs Aaron Marsh, of New Plymouth. “In fact, even within comparatively recent years there were people who believed that New Plymouth would never be anything more than a coastal port, whereas it has been developed until it is now probably the first artificial port in New Zealand or Australia.”
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Otago Witness, Issue 4041, 25 August 1931, Page 11
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