MANGATAINOKA VALLEY.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1007, 23 December 1910, Page 8

MANGATAINOKA VALLEY.

.PROSPERITY AND SCENIC -BEAUTV. ; ' '."I tell you,';it's the wettest part of the • <; province." "Nonsense," said 1.'j. "Well,".'said lie, .''l-have lived in the lliirigatainoka Valley'a good many years ■ ; liow.- and:! itliihk I,ought, to know." - -That .was 'a passage between a farmer v and bijr ''travelling porrcspondent.'. Our .. t.travelling correspondent proceeds-: "I don'f'know :that-I have .had a more de- ',- / V Ijghtful day than the "one in Which 1 t-.'.Todo over -from Rongokokako to the Val- - . Ifey,'and up the river to Putara. It was .: .: aiyery i warm'and . bright, sunny day. , Everything looked'so. fresh, and green, and 'i-htfy tterfl : was, any amount of grass. In the . -river, . clear as crystal, one could 'see'-,-v the-trout -basking: in tho shallows. And ,i .; what lots of trout there are in this •y. -. '; It is''an angler's - paradise—a- .... , : < ciipital stream for, throwing tho fly, as in* V most-places tho banks'-are very open. ..-."I ; ha'd been remarking to one of the : Putara.. farmers, on what a beautiful day we - 'were having, and about how very nice 'and clieprful every'thing looked. He ; i declared it was a wet and\windy climate. However, as T. said,. I:' could only speak 3,. ; | of. the district as I found it. It seemed ; : me they had not only.a very beautiful .; but a-very nice climate. . . . , A'/"What;seems to' be more to" the point j■■■■■: is that most of the Putara. farmers seem' ". • to .be' doing well. r Some are sheep farrn- • ers. those on. the more hilly sections— .. , wh'ilethere are .'a good many-suppliers of ; : the Nireaha chcese factory. ' ,; f . ; "At ..the head of the Valley the scenery Is.grsjitl '-ln'-.{the' extreme;''. Tho moun-. * taiiis rise'up, to dizzy peaks from the .• river,'.very - rugged and grand. If more .. . people' knewofi, the splendid scenery up -this ;ciarming Valley,: many would ..ini .-- ... elude it in a four. . There .is a splendid , ■- metalled road, all ■ through this country. - /Another attraction-\vill probably bo pro- ; : . vided : next season, in the -shape of deer-.-Etalkihg. Mt. T. B.,Mason, who .is a . -V, . member, of the Acclimatisation Society,' and who. resides ltereabouts, told mo that / the deer aire becoming sufficiently numerous . v, to Warrant a season's-shooting. In fact, if, not thinned, they will soon become a -ptiisance." .