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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 12, Issue 10 (January 1, 1938.)
Five Years Later
Five Years Later.
Almost five years passed after the Royal Commission sent its Report to
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the Government, when, in 1884, we read the closing chapters of this period of the History of Jackson's Bay. Mr. A. Barron, in the course of an official letter to the Surveyor-General, stated that scattered over the settlement were 24 families; on the Okuru, nine; on the Waiototo, eight; at Arawata, five; in the township, two. The settlers still suffered through their isolated position; stores arriving, on an average, only once in three months.
(Aerial photo. by Capt. J. C. Mercer.)Otira Gorge, showing Arthur's Pass (top) and Otira, in foregroun, South Island, New Zealand.
Toward the end of the Report occurs the brief sentence sounding like the last faint toll of an exhausted bell: “I was asked to bring under notice the need for a jetty at Jackson's Bay.”