Oparau.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 269, 27 July 1906, Page 2

Oparau.

(FROM OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) A meeting was held last Saturday in the school re borrowing for the Okupata road. Tbe business has been so mutilated that a fresh posal is necessary. The meeting sent a petition to the County Council by Cr Armstrong that all were in favour of borrowing. The weather here has improved, but our road is impassable for heavy traffic. We hope to etart the mud launch during this wet season. The engines will be ordered from America. Another native area has been leased by a small local settler. How is this for a proof of tbe confidence shown a=i regards Oparau’s successful future ? I understand another 20U0 .acre lot is under consideration. I predict a suucessiui future for all the land around Kawnia. The proof is in what has been learned of tbe capabiiies of onr , acil. Several farm bou-es have been j built this fall, and add an air of push ' and prosperity to the road side, mak- j ing the old whares look very small. ' Mr Elliott has built the largest house in this district. Mr Fred Schreiber came from Tara naki last week to un education lease of 400 acres he secured by tender on the To Kauri, on 'the north side of the river, adjoining Mr Williams’ see tion, Mr Sebreiber is a settler cf tbe right stamp, and his section is a good one He intends starting to get grass in, and as soon as possible house up. Local settlers have not been able to get out much lately. Pettit e rain gunge would have a tough job here us les j watched all night as well as during the day. It .i, bone mill were started ou some handy available water power it would supply a reliable bone manure, as the imported, article contains germs of the mvst deadly diseases, and sterilisation F uf r rAljable as it if» often not thoroughly done. Theis was sn.w oh Firougi hill on the 18th, and saveral cattle died here and there during the blizzard. *