WERAROA's RESOURCES.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 February 1914, Page 2

WERAROA's RESOURCES.

(To tlie Editor). J- 11 your issue of February -jrd, 1 noticed a short paragraph, which, to say.the least of it, is calculated to give outsiders the impression tliat Weraroa is dow 11 and out. I have also noted 111 your columns the remark reported that the place was merely residential. Why more so than Levin or any other place of its size Y Let me give you a list of the businesses of this place: Timber yards, and machinery for cutting- and dressing- timber, the most up-to-date butchery between Wellington and Palmerston, sash and door factory, general store, bakery, and two blacksmith shops, post office, railway station, goods shed, trucking' yards, with the possibility of sale yards in the future. As some slight evidence that W eraroa is not the obscure village you have hinted /fti, I received this year from the Commonwealth a letter bearing the laconic address "Weraroa, JN T .Z. I have also seen illustrations of Weraroa 1 arm dairy cows m Australia >s first weekly journal--the -Melbourne Leader; also, in the letterpress articles bv the present manager. By the way, Mr Editor, speaking of dreams and visions of Future Greatness, perhaps people in the district as a "tfliole have a weakness that way. Some have dreamed of gold, copper and tin in tlie lararuas, and some are dreaming of a possible Agricultural College on the Weraroa Experimental Farm. Personally J should build as little on the fulfilment of the latter as I did on the former.—Thanking you in anticipation, I am, etc., E. BISHOP. Beach-road, "Weraroa. February 20th.