HOW TO GO TO OMANA.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1372, 24 February 1912, Page 23

HOW TO GO TO OMANA.

I Selectors wanting to go to Omana leave Auckland Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, by 7 a.m. train, for Helonsville, tako steamer to Dargaville, arriving chore 5 p.m., go next morning up river by daily steamer, arrive at Omana 11 a;m. The return faro is 28s. Persons can go to Omana, via Whangarei, if they prefer. Leaving Auckland at 10 p.m. you reach Whangarei for breakfast, take coach to Tangiterorin (at head of Northern Wairoa) and steamer down to Omnna, or ride (four miles), arriving about 1 or 2 o'clock. The single faro this way is 275., or return 465. Gd., or tho round trip can bo made up the Wairoa to Omana and back by lVhangarei to Auckland for 455. Od. Whangarei is the roost important town North of Auckland (2-1 miles from Omana), where all tho largest cattle sales are held. Sales are held at several places on tho Wairoa, and tho dealers buy very largely in the paddock. The sales to bo started at Omana are expected to become the most important in tho district, owing to the central position and nearness to freezing works. Dargav-illc, which the visitor reaches first night going via tho Helensville railway, is a fairly largo borough, occupying a very central position. It has just gone in for a loan for gas-works and street formation, etc., and promises to mako considerable headway now the cutting up of the big estates is under way. So far as buving is concerned, everything can be bought as well in Dargaville as outside. There are three good hotels here, and soveral boardinghouscs, and tho charges aro very niodcrato. Intending visitors to Omana can get fuller particulars from our Auckland or Darivillo . office«, *nd arnmgo to bo personally conducted over property. Tho teleph'ono is in almost universal use on tho Wairoa, and our Dargaville Branch Manager, Mr. James Hemphill, can bo ruug up by visitors from any part of the river if they wish to make arrangements for visiting Omona. Parsons coming in bv tho Tangiteroria route are advised to "ring up Mr. Hemphill for directions.