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the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Gisborne
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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a seaport of New Zealand, in Cook county, provincial district of Auckland, on Poverty Bay of the east coast of North Island. Pop. (1901) 2733; (1906)5664. Woo], frozen mutton and agricultural produce are exported from the rich district surrounding. Petroleum has been discovered in the neighbourhood, and about 40 m. from the town there are warm medicinal springs. Near the site of Gisborne Captain Cook landed in 1769, and gave Poverty Bay its name from his inability to obtain supplies owing to the hostility of the natives. Young Nick's Head, the southern horn of the bay, was named from Nicholas Young, his ship's boy, who first observed it.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Gisborne'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/g/gisborne.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Gisborne'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/g/gisborne.html. 1910.
