The Turn Of The Century

From Mr Roland Graham, Haronga Road, we have these pictures from a supplement to the Auckland Weekly News dated Friday, August 4, 1899. The supplement was headed "The Progress of Poverty Bay" and, after summarising the progress of the first 130 years (1769-1899), it assures its readers that the Bay's potential has nowhere been reached. The 1899 shipping figures of 23,32l bales of wool and 42,600 carcases of frozen mutton make interesting reading. As far as acquiring land was concerned, the native land laws of the time prevented further acquisition of holdings "by numbers of men who, at the present moment, would be glad to uy large areas of native lands at as high a rate as $2 to $4 per acre".

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The Cook County Council of 1899. From left, front row: Councillor Arthur Hutchinson, James Macfarlane (chairman), Councillor Wm. Cooper. Back row: Geo. J. Winter, engineer, Councillors G. W. Tiffen, J. Tombleson, T. Jex-Blake, W. King, W. Graham, J. Warren, clerk.

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Another picture featured in the supplement was this one of a group of Poverty Bay pioneers.