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 | | The traffic entailed by the pioneering of a new district would prove too much for the first primitive metal surface, and its deterioration would be hastened by the effect of the standing bush on either side, which sheltered it from the drying influence of sun and wind. |
 | | New families arriving in March were given land to the north of the river, also separated from the Government Reserve by the land sold earlier. |
 | | It was unlike New Plymouth, however, in that it did not consist of a small, closely-settled coastal strip, but rather of a pocket of about four hundred square miles of thinly-settled squatter country, extending some thirty miles inland to the south of the province's capital and port Napier. |
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