PAST AND PRESENT.
When welcoming His Excellency the Governor to Auckland the other day the Mayor of the city said that in the early 'sixties the Queen's writ did not run for more than twenty miles ,l)e,viiu* Auckland. Tho Hand was torn bv war. Not one-twentith part of the* North Island was possessed or cultivated by British seUiors. ~nd was a village of a few tnou ,sand inhabitants, 'i'ho exports from the province, which to-day amounted to f;4,000,000 per annum, did not then amount to more than a few thousands. A handful cf heroic British ineii ar.d women wor:' .struggling tc colonise New Zealand, To-day nearly all Now Zealand was settled and in a state of productivity. The- wild* erness had been made to blossom as a rose, and New Zealand wa.s the most fruitful and productive part of the Empire. All this had been accomplished in a single generation. It made them proud of their ancestry, proud of the Anglo-Saxon colonising powers. V t ill ■■ ,
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 6 February 1913, Page 4
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