TOLD AT NIKO NIHO.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 726, 27 January 1910, Page 8

TOLD AT NIKO NIHO.

■'. l ;/#.';v EOADING^MATTERS. : . . .., "On my -way through tho'Ohura Eoad I had. a spcU at the'Niho-'Niho butter factory,.and'had a "■ talk witli ,ono of the hands,": writes'V'a correspoSdent.; ; • Ho told'me thatwhen tho roa'dK-To ljad and irapassablo byjcarts ho had-ionise, speci-ally-made cream cans a'nd paclt them, on horses to ; the factory. Leaving; the factory in the .afternoon" he '.motes his way down to Ohura. (sis .miles distant), '.tlienco."on to'.-Totu (fourteen miles' from , - the'fac:tory). ;' About six miles - beyond; Olruratho so-called- road ehters-a bi&yv.cutting, the central which-is^iiot ;yet completed, tho, funds ...having .given, out,. : but in order that the farmors can use the road' a "'tunnel - has been pierced through .tho remainder of ■,the hill' that blocks the way. The bottom of this cutting tthen I Went through was over lnyloiees in. thick' mud,.: and. the -■- itsslf-..." was . ; in .a wretchedly dangerous condition ..owing:, to. the 'absenco of adequate timbering. Would vdu believe it—it is.- a commoa occurrence for earth to fall oa carts, and .those, in them when>passine thrptiKh..this,hNe.'n the hill.' They' told me that-1 wasilucky not -to get any;?. The. journey.I;,hayo described has, of •! course, .to. be daily (to and ..from the cream, is packed myV friend has. to ride, one horse, and lead the other carrying; the'.cream>'Cans.",; ■■.'. ■ "■_■■ ■:■'' ■:■ '\.';S:',, : .'