Chapter XXXIX — Local Government

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• [section]
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  • Notes
  • Biographical
• Provincial Government Rule
  • Natives Build Important Road Outlets
  • Biographical
• Under Municipal Control
  • Pioneer Civic Rulers and Their Problems
  • Roadmaking Under Difficulties
  • Gisborne's Water Supply Problem
  • Gisborne's Ill-fated Tramways System
  • Municipal Administrators
• Cook County
  • Original Area Now Divided Into Five Counties
  • Maoris Outpace Europeans
  • Biographical
• Waiapu County
  • Development Under Difficulties
  • “Ghost” Townships
  • Biographical
• Uawa County
  • Early Handicap of Lack of Roads and Bridges
  • Biographical
• Waikohu County
  • Splendid Record of Progress
  • Notes
• Matakaoa County
  • Severe Setbacks at Outset
  • Biographical
• Gisborne Harbour Board
  • Floods Destroy First Inner Haven
  • Building of the Breakwater
  • Destructive Floods
  • Development of Kaiti Basin
  • Biographical
• Cook Hospital Board
  • Severe Epidemics of the Past
  • Biographical
• Poverty Bay Power Board
  • Rapid Growth of Business
  • Notes
• Poverty Bay Catchment Board — River and Erosion Control
• East Coast Rabbit Board — Grave Menace on Southern Border
• Gisborne Fire Board
  • From Bucket-chain to Mobile Engines
  • Notes

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Title: Historic Poverty Bay and the East Coast, N.I., N.Z.

Author: Joseph Angus Mackay

Publication details: Joseph Angus Mackay, 1949, Gisborne

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