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Hokitika Guardian, 8 November 1927, Page 2

With the advance of springtime there is a more buoyant feeling current throughout the district, suggesting the return of a period of sustained prosperity There is a good deal to justify a better feeling of optimism, promising events in and aliout Westland now taking on substantial forms. The advent of hydro-electricity will bring a good deal in its train. The power will serve all parts of North Westland where development is likely to occur. In particular there is a very hopeful feeling about a gold mining revival in different parts of the district. All the former fields to "be served by power null receive attention where the prospect* are inviting. A new method of workjpg to overcome fall and drainage wjR

be possible, and abandoned alluvial ground is sure to be reworked. In the Stafford-Goldsborougb and Arahura districts this is sure to conic to pass. Propeetiug is now going ahead, and some attractive propositions are in mind. The hydro-electric power will be utilised generally for various industrial enterprises, and will be a special aid for various forms ol timber milling, which will lead to various isolated patches of forest being cleaned up and so save waste, while at the same time creating increased avenues for employment. It is very gratifying to learn in connection with tho timber trade generally that there is likely to lie an early revival. In that event a large development scheme in the Kokatalii district is in sight. 'I his intitules an extension oi a steam tramway into tli 0 district, and the bridging of the Kokatahi liver for the purpose of transporting limiter from Koiterangrby rail. This indeed will be a notable industrial development. Along the same route of tramway coal prospecting is proceeding very satisfactorily. There is tho promise of a development there bv which coal will bo available for all district purposes, practically, and that will prove a matter for congratulation also. Aleantinie dairying .and pastoral pursuits are progressing satisfactorily. Those on the land have a better seaon in store than the last, while so far as dairying is concerned, with a coinmod ions central factory established at Hokitika there is always on the tapis prospects for better returns than ever Tor dairying if oentialisation were adopted and the output operated by one plant Tt would be a great gain to tbe man oil the land, and probably this result is not. so very remote alter all. , Altogether Westland prospects are such as to give confidence for the future, and in particular next year should see very marked developments coming to pass.