NO PLACE FOR A PORT
“The site of Wanganui for a large port is not a good one,” stated Dr. G. Jobberns, professor of geography, Canterbury University College, Christchurch, during the course of an address in Wanganui recently. "The sea has cut the front from the old plain, so that a xxell-defined line of cliffs marks the coast for a long distance. Seaxvard from the cliff base in a mudstone coast like this xvili almost, inevitably be an underwater shelf. This, combined xx.th a poxverful current along the shore causing extensive drift of sand, presents you xvith a big physical difficulty in the xxay of keeping open a deen river-mouth port.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 150, 1 July 1946, Page 4
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111NO PLACE FOR A PORT Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 150, 1 July 1946, Page 4
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