TAKEN FROM THE HAWKES BAY HERALD.
November 18th 1874. Which says.—That the present Superintendent of Auckland is apt to promise to much. This has given him the soubriquet of "promising John." A Native of the Bay of Plenty district said a good thing to him the other day. . He had been promising' the good people a wharf at Ohiwa (and it is said the work will shortly be undertaken,) but the Maori, addressing Mr. Williamson said. "The wharf is very short, but the talk about it is very long," and finished up by suggesting that if the Government could not manage the wharf, they might furnish him with a cart, an article he had been wanting for some time. The wharf was promised, and the matter of the cart referred to the Native Minister's department, with what result remains to be seen, but the shrewdness of the Maories remark to Mr. Williamson will not be forgotten. Mr. Williamson has done good service to the Province of Auckland, and has its interests, no doubt, sincerely at heart, but he is apt from the good nature of his -disposition to promise sometimes, what he cannot perform, and the Natives appear to know this as well as the Pakeha.
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Wananga, Volume 1, Issue 9, 10 December 1874, Page 49
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206TAKEN FROM THE HAWKES BAY HERALD. Wananga, Volume 1, Issue 9, 10 December 1874, Page 49
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