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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1315, 12 June 1883, Page 2

About noon yesterday Messrs. Chambers, Allanach, Gannon, and W'esT'»n, member* of the Cook County Council, and Mr. Oxevham met at Waerenga a-hika for tl.e purpose of inspecting the Ormond quarry, a Committee of the Council having been appointed to report upon the adaptability of the Ormond metal for the road*. For a long time there has been a feeling that tho Ormond quarry has not had a fair trial, and that its merits have been ignored by backstairs i••fluence both in and out of the Council. Thus its metal producing capabilities have remained in amhigno. The party yesterday inspected the sites of the old quarries, and af’er traversing the Waihirere stream for a short distance, ascended the hill on the left. The ascent of the bold looking limestone bluff facing southwards was made, after the usual efforts incidental to climbing forest hills in New Zealand. The height above the sea is said to be about six

I hundred feet No exploring party In ; search erf lira frstone rock will be ever likely to auar rel with their guide over the height hf this bluff, for any deficiency it I that respect i« amply C”tnpen*afed by i s perpendicularity The bluff i 8 high enough for all practical pur and there seems to be in its vicin tity ttleial, while not of a first class c harvier yet infinitely superior to ati'.V yet brought out. Like all things worth posseting these is bound to be soiQne difficulty in acquiring it, What the' opinion is of those gentlemen wlro visited the place yesterday, we «*re unable to say. Of i this we feel assured that the Ormond i quarry has not? yet had a fair trial, ; i and the sooner ths Councils as well as ; tike settlers stir up in the matter the be*tti*r. We will leave the subject for i the present and ha ait the report from > the 'Committee of the County Council.