KIRITEHERE-MOEATOA.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 431, 17 January 1912, Page 6

KIRITEHERE-MOEATOA.

♦ Own Correspondent. The s. s Pitoitoi left Marokopa Heads on the 6th inst., laden with 60 bales of wool from Vicary's landing up the river, to which place are taken to be shorn most of the sheep from Pomerangi and the adjacent country. The Pitoitoi also had on board several hundred pounds' worth of butter from the Marokopa river factory, and other miscellaneous cargo, the aggregate a total of which is estimated at about a thousand pounds' sterling. A meeting of the Marokopa Hall commitee will be held at the end of the month. Marokopa presents an animated spectacle just now. Pack trains are arriving daily and dropping their loads on the sand, which is baked to an unbearable hotness by the fierce sun, and heated settlers struggle to and fro inside the shed as they stack wool for shipment to Auckland or Wellington, and say to one another, "ain't it hot!" and go and buy vile hop beer at sixpence a bottle, while good whisky can be purchased in Auckland for ss. The unregenerate drink a cock-tail composed of hop beer and pain killer which, however, does not "take on," and will never replace the more popular "cold tea." It is rumoured that steps are being taken to place the privately-owned part of the Marokopa on the market. The Government has been petitioned in regard to this. The Pitoitoi is expected to return in a few days for a fresh consignment of wool, which is awaiting shipment.