AMONG THE ROLLING -HILLS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1038, 30 January 1911, Page 8

AMONG THE ROLLING -HILLS.

TIKAUMEA' AND OTHER STATIONS. Travelling along . the Alfredton-Wefrer Koad, which is in capital order, there is'a stretph> of. iiue. : pastor.al country ;.a few miies, after leaving "Ngarata.", The fi,rst station is "Brcoklanils," tho property- of Mr.' Henry Barling,' of between six and seven thousand acres. It is .a . sheep farm, loir hills, rolling country, ■ arid fine fiats. The owner is ono of the . 6ons !of Mr. Burling, tho well-known Waikanae centenarian. ! Across tho Tiraumea Eiver, opposite "Ngarata," avo some grand flats, which oould bo ]>ut into rape or swedes. There is a beautiful piece of bush on. the banks of. the river, making a pretty picture vrit.h the Puketoi Bange rising up in the .distance.' • " .' ' , •A little further iip- the road we enter ;on "Tiraumea," the property of Mr. Holmes, some twelvo thousand acres. .• Mr. Holmes, sen., was at Home, or 011 his way out, and his son, Mr. Colin Holmes, is . managing. /'Tiraumea": is a nice home; witb'fa 'particularly good garden. I don't khows any station—and of course I know nearly all >of them—where there is a . better woolshed' than on "Tiraumea"; everything is so, conveniently arranged; . Then' tho shearers' accommodation house • certainly takes, the palm. In fact it was considered' so' good that ' the inspector' made' : a special report on it, and stated that:it was the best he had ever seen. 'The plough is very much in evidenca on.this station; a large area is constantly , being broken in. Since the present owner took.over tho station it.has been greatly improved, and ■ is now to a largo extent giving .the harvest which was sown by Mr. Holmes Warren, the managing part-ner-of the firm who owned "Tiraumea," and who. is now at Turanganui, on the east cf Wairarapa Lake. Joining "Tiraumea" on the right is "Waterfalls," a smaller station. It . was. here that Mr. ißurling, the centenarian, resided for some years. Since he went to Waikanae the >property.has changed hands . several times. It ; is now owned by Mr; Foreman,; from the. Tinui Valley.