WELCOME RAIN.
“Forty years ago,” said the Aucklander who knew his provincial history, “this rain would have been welcomed in certain quarters, and t don’t suppose you would have heard one voice in the North Auckland region in protest. lii those days the kauri timber industry was in its glory, and many of the northern townships depended solely for their trade upon timber and timbergetters. Away hack in the eighties we bad a summer much like the present one; the rain started about Christmas and kept up for goodness knows how long. The timber people were delighted. They had never had such luck before. At that time the creeks would usually be at their lowest, but iu the summer I refer to —about the middle ’eighties, I think —they, were all running a hanker, the dams were full, and a great supply of logs came down to the booms. In those days kauri forests were worked at many places iu the Auckland Province, and several rafts a week used to be towed into the Waiteuuita from coastal ports. At the present time there are only two kauri bushes being' worked, as far as I am aware, one at Kauaeranga, Thames, and the other in the Far North, and I am not certain that I In' Thames bush is not iinished.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 40402, 16 January 1930, Page 1
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220WELCOME RAIN. Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 40402, 16 January 1930, Page 1
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