A suggestion that a daily ferry service between Stewart Island and Bluff should be organised and that it should be controlled by the Railway Department, thus enabling fishermen to get a direct service, was made by Mr. Charles Robertson, of Stewart Island, in an interview in Invercargill. Mr. Robertson, who is stated to be the oldest inhabitant of the island, expressed a desire to see the country ooened up immediately and pastoral development begun.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19454, 13 October 1937, Page 3
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