Oparau.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 318, 28 June 1907, Page 3

Oparau.

(from our own correspondent.)

Stray cattle ami hogs are dangerous to riders, appearing mddenly at bad parts thus frightening the horses. Another boa?diug house is mooted f a* Oparau to be built by aoo operative X company. This is the first sign of co-operation here. Mr Symons is gettiner his house ujf at Oparau ferry auu Mr James Scoot and party are getting oo fast with the Okupata bridge, doing really first-class work Tfeis bridge hat> the appearance so far of being a credit to the builder and aesis'ants. A meeting was held Saturday 15th to arrange re wharf and shed at Oparau. It was arranged that Mea a ra Elliott and Scott got 9 x 9 totara piles from their sections and that Mr Armstrong (engineer) find on t boundary of native land at (he landing and what money i» available from proposed loan. About £lOO at least is wanted for this job. The Kawhia wharf wants au addition to deep* r water. The wharf is much too small, so that at least £lOOO is wanted for present requirements leaving ont the oem-taiiy for channel beacons. . The wreck of the s.e. Kia Ora caused a feling of sorrow among the people here. We are going to request the Government to resume a town site here from native owners and sell the freehold of sections to residents. There is no town here and if one is not surveyed the Oparau ferry will do Oparau bad and soon become (be local centre. The last contribution to the school residence was au iron chimney. Now will someone put it up? Our Education Department so far as Oparau is concerned is a poor affair. The people here baye to bu’ld their own school and residence, the Government taking the credit of so called free Education for which the colony pays for tlyI notice sledges have superceded wheeled traffic as there is no bottom to the mud and a sledge keeps on top.