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Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 26 June 1912, Page 3

The company own a mill also at Putara I'll, (where the dressing of the timber isdono) fifty miles distant, and \ about ono hundred and forty miles ! from Auckland, on the Auckland- : Kotorua line, Mokai and Putararu \ i are connected by the Company's pri- i ! vate Hdo of railway, and though it took us over six hours to do the fifty ! miles on a recent trip, ray wonder is that we did it at all. I have crossed the " Zig-zag " railway of the Blue Mountains in JNew South Wales, and the Zig-zag of the Rocky Mountains in America, but for twists and turns, horse-shoe bends and " cork-screw,'"' I fantastic cuttings and stiff grades, i though lacking, of course, the magnitude, in my unprofessional opinion, the Putararu-Mokai Zig-aag presents quite as interesting features o± engineering skill as either of those to which I have referred. The scenery, however, along the lino of route, unlike that of its great rivals, is not iiwiting. Like that of Palestine in parts, in the words of Mark Twain, it is " bleak, barren, blasted, and inhospitable." Mokai boasts a population of about one hundred and fifty souls, -white and brown, Maori and European, big and little. It has a neat Bom an Gatho- ! lie church perched on the top of one j of the many little isolated hills that dot the landscape, winch was built by the Maoris themselves, for their especial use. If the frequent ringing of " the church-going bell "is an indication of the church-going Maoris' piety then the future of our brown brothers and sisters in the next world is assured. The spiritual wants of the Presbyterian section of the community is looked after by the minister resident Rplpn Wllle Hot SlniWO\ at Taupo, eighteen miles distant, who lieieilS tfliie M.OU *UgS rides over every Sunday evening, •- : . . -.-.- :r ._—_— —. weather permitting, and holds service |r . n ■»--. T/N nTT ,-,. in the library. The ".Bush-Baptists M ,V U J-J I!\ ItK !I) P look after themselves. hJX -^^ i. \\J L/XJ '.U Tho usual accessories pf a large XJ f\ £ I Si~|^ milling industry are to, be found at JLJLVJ U k)JLj Mokai; blacksmith'sshop ; fitting-shed, rmT t*~\t^ttt ll? locomotive fihed. general store, but- ' * L.MjliiJN O V 11^1;^ chery, boarding-house owned by Mr Ilcmphill, -well-known about Helens- ——One -Vija_^ ft'om ftffi;~;ville, and wJ:o caters successfidly for ; "-~.w?t^-^. ~=—< all the single men. The married ones, QUPEiUOE EOAEB and Eesi* lof course, make other arrangements. kJ deiilbe for Visitors to Hot Springs Something more ou t]iis score and tho i Every Convenience and Attention, general appearance of the Slokai in Imy next. " ' .c® Terms Moderate."©^ ! a*i- J^oTxr^r „ MES E-ODLESTON, Proprietress,

I and K^^^Bd in these final- ' WKITNG PADS at kl and Is each,-, ' dated debentures, Mr Fisher fK|JL I Telegrams : < Sprihgside,' Helensville