HAURAKI PLAINS NOTES

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 818, 12 November 1929, Page 9

HAURAKI PLAINS NOTES

There ore now 3-~ m*-ji i>: th*- unemployed relief work camp at Toreha pe, small - ngs frequent intervals during the past The met drains in peat and .• re being paid ges until the] to the work. of two-bert i . :< nd many ol them anticipat good rnorev when placed on co-o]K*ra-tive contracts. X.. applicatioi Land Board for tie* se.« n . i• t- d soldier sections at Orongo which were offered last month at their original valuations of from £32 to gT.s an acre. It was learned that th** Act prescribed that abandoned sectios s district roads. due to tl •* w« t \v«*atii« r interfc ring with tl carting < r the three miles of uninetalbd Track fit.ni the quarry. In the early part of thweek about 80 yards . metal were laid daily, b ! in the tti t no | carting was possib!* . In ii.v meantime the Linds Drainage Department eparing Kaihere section up to main hig being eased, and c uttings widened. Althoug the votes i Turua Plui kc t Society’s kin? Turua n< l and K • As a result of the i pid growth of pasture, on the llauraki Plains • : <*ps of w ite cb i thick in paddocks which in v* not be* n . docks will:-- tli** ciov. \v.:> still C*t front th-* nigbr’s rain. A nu .br: of