Life in Early Poverty Bay
Oldest Business Place in Town
Oldest Business Place in Town.
The kauri timber came from Auckland in schooners and was rafted ashore here on to the mud flat where the old slip used to stand. The schooner, after being lightened, then came into the river. One shop still stands to-day that was built of kauri by my father for the firm of Robjohns, Teat & Co. It is on the Lowe Street corner and is now occupied by Mrs. Gunn as a ladies' supply store. I think it is the oldest business place in Gisborne to-day.
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