River of Legend now a river of weeping willows. A glimpse of the Wanganui River at the camp site at Aramoho, after it bends sweepingly at Sparrow Cliff, to open out in a wide straight, of appeal to row boats and motor launches. To-day the lower reaches of the river are lined with weeping willows, bright green in the spring, golden in the autumn. To the historian those trees bring thoughts of a lonely man on St. Helena, who dreamed of conquering a world, but who was left to dream on the smallest, safest island his fellowmen, who refused to be conquered, could find for him.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 82, Issue 305, 24 December 1938, Page 19 (Supplement)
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106River of Legend now a river of weeping willows. A glimpse of the Wanganui River at the camp site at Aramoho, after it bends sweepingly at Sparrow Cliff, to open out in a wide straight, of appeal to row boats and motor launches. To-day the lower reaches of the river are lined with weeping willows, bright green in the spring, golden in the autumn. To the historian those trees bring thoughts of a lonely man on St. Helena, who dreamed of conquering a world, but who was left to dream on the smallest, safest island his fellowmen, who refused to be conquered, could find for him. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 82, Issue 305, 24 December 1938, Page 19 (Supplement)
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