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Life in Early Poverty Bay

The “Shin Plasters.”

The “Shin Plasters.”

When the Government paid out, the bulk of the money was taken by Joe Kennedy to Auckland. Capt. Read used to issue paper money of his own. His notes were called “shin plasters”—for why I do not know. I think they were used until the Bank of N.Z. started. He was supposed to have made money with them. A lot of them would be burned when Te Kooti made the raid. He had a small steamer named after his wife. He also had a store where the freezing works stand and vessels used to discharge into it. He also had another store where the band rotunda is situated. He used, both these places for many years. Then again he had another store between the Albion Hotel and the river; this one was where he did his business with the public. He had no country branches and he liked everything in that line under his own eye.