HORSE TRACK-UPPER WHANGAMOMONA TO OHURA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 105, 6 May 1902, Page 2

HORSE TRACK-UPPER WHANGAMOMONA TO OHURA.

We understand that it ia now potafbla ■ouke horses through from (he Upper Ohura-road on tbe Wbang-moaowi side, via Taungarakau Valbe. Jo the track on the Ohura aide. from Wangamamona, it will take about five an 1 a hslf hours to rid« via the '■ dray and horse-road to the flrot un- / bridged crossing of the Tatnippnlcai), where there is a good ford nbout two feet deep, when the river ia "»■«! ard without a fresh. Tbe next orrw* < ing a little fvthfr on ia 3ft 6in deep at . oidinary time**, or when the «'bar fofli is about 2ft, r,d ibis allows no hug foe fliods, and for ordinary tr&v. 'lata it it < to £>.k-< a long rop« *vn<t l»ad or • drive the horncs ever, and tbey thus* j ■"•lves tro«s in the cage, which u handy* Prom tho upper crossing ittskea iboat two and a half hours t.o got through a very bush track to the clearing on the Ohuia sido. In matiy places the how s will require to be led, Uti * none i-hould try it except those actm turned to r>>ugh bush travelling--or aft leas? one of that cla*s should f'e of th# P a ' ty, and it is recommended that any* ' one trying it should get an early atari from the Gov>rxim«nt house beyond the top end of Whancamomona, an a* to h ive all thn day in front of bias. The inconvenience to person* wishing to look at. the Whangamomora oonntry from the S'rat ford hide was that tb»jr had to leav« thf-ir horses in the upper Taungarabau and walk through, and bad not the benefit of riding wkyn they reached Ohura. The otly benefit claimed for this trick ia that bad hf travellers I' makes it possible them to at least 1 ad theit homea riglit , [tlirougb, but it is no place for a " new < chum." We are informed that th» ; Lands Department hopes to have area ready for offering about August.