NOT THE MOST WINDY CITY
WELLINGTON’S CLAIM. (United Press Association.) Wellington, April 2. “The people of Wellington are not fully alive to their own interests. Wellington is not a miserable city—our surroundings are equal to any—and visitors have told me that Wellington is one of the finest sites and is being made a city comparable to many in the old world,” said Mr R. A. Wright, M.P., when speaking at the official opening ceremony of the Wellington Easter Show.
Aucklanders had always talked about their cty, he said, and many of them thought that Wellington was distinguished for nothing but its wind. “That is not so,” said Mr Wright. “I was in Auckland on one occasion when it blew so hard that it blew a horse and cart off the wharf into the sea. That has never happened in Wellington.”
“Wellington people are too modest and shy,” he said.
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Southland Times, Issue 22856, 3 April 1936, Page 8
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