River Transport
River transport was the best means of getting goods, people and animals to the Hauraki Plains in the early days, when the roads were non-existent or poorly maintained.
Quote – “It was undoubtedly the waters of the Firth, Piako and Waihou that gave access to the plains for human enterprise and settlement for both Māori and Pakeha” – Ruffus Tye (Hauraki Plains Story).
Read more about this topic: Hauraki Plains
Famous quotes containing the words river and/or transport:
“I journeyed to London, to the timekept City,
Where the River flows, with foreign flotations.
There I was told: we have too many churches,
And too few chop-houses.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“One may disavow and disclaim vices that surprise us, and whereto our passions transport us; but those which by long habits are rooted in a strong and ... powerful will are not subject to contradiction. Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)