THE KING COUNTRY CHRONICLE. MONDAY, MARCH 1, 1909 OUR DISTRICT.
Of more than ordinary interest is the opinion of practical men with regard to the progress and prospects of a new district, and the opinions voiced by the members of the Taranaki Land Board as a result of their tour through our back country are worthy of note. The
district lying between the Wanganui r and Mokau rivers, from the railway to the coast, portion of which was covered ' by the tour referred to, is a vast area o( good land capable of immense development The more accessible and best favoured portions of this stretch * of country, including Ohura and Aria districts, arc already well in the forefront of settlement, and in a very short time will be yielding astonishing re- ; suits. Coal and timber and limestone ■ " arc some of the natural products of the j district to which industrialists will 1' naturally turn in time to come, and j the quality of the land is such as to j , make for the future the assurance of , permanent prosperity. What is true < 1 of one portion of the back country is ' equally true of the district stretching from tho Mokau river to Kawhia. . 1 Splendid stretches of rolling country 1
fitted for farming in all its branches; coal measures as yet unexplored, to say nothing of timber and flax that greet the eye of ttbe traveller, and there can be no doubt as to the part the King Country is to play in the commercial future of the Dominion. The people who undertake public life in the district, ar # d have a hand in the fashioning of pubiif policy witbin the Rphe Pptae j! require %o be gifted with the faculty of thinking broadly, and acting as jhey I think, in order tp make the best use o f I the material to hand. It is gratifying to see that our settlers already realise ; this, and the ability to recognise poi tential things frcquen tly goes band in , jj hand with the ability of execution and | organisation. I
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King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 135, 1 March 1909, Page 2
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