Tongaportu.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7892, 7 August 1905, Page 2

Tongaportu.

o—(From Our Correspondent.) mere is a great boom in business this winter. Two stores wi'Ui butch ntT C °^l' ncd havo *™ opened , OkaA, w ,thto lhu i ast throe ; r(;eks Jlr L. Jacobs, of Mok au , has opened at ho j,mct.o n of the Oka.. ~nd Mangatoro lio a ds, and Mr J. Shecdy has opened . two miles further up the rivTiapre is also a post office opened providing a weekly mail. P ' The traffic on the roads is cm) r-| ...mis-much more than ever it wis before, and the roads were never so had as now Messrs Uleakley and Songster, 0 f ,; re nui, are in with tw u two drays, qntea. week or cftener, it the axle in mud. Four pounds per ton freight ! Mr Jacobs has a four horse express, and there are from twelve 'to, twenty pack horses from Mokau. They pack gx>ods anywhere, I believe, at reasonable prices But Cher's meat runs from threepence sirloins, and fourpence rump,n n d( excellent beef at that. Mr Tt OWe pncks from LTUti, and Mr Waters, of Tongaporatu, has got a packinfe plant recently. Bread fs therefore assured mud notwithstanding. The Minister for Public Works promised to have, the roads improved next spring, which will doubtless be done. Tho days of throwing slush from tho watcr-taMo on to tho centre aro nearly over. O'he six-feet traefcs in.the Ohuraare. progressing slowly. The. contractors were half their time packing food, (,nit now they will get it packed to the work. The bi'idgd on the upper Tongaporutu twill srion bo finished, when . horsemen will [bo.nblo to go to Miingaroa. Dancing goes on apaco in Tongaporu'tu. Ok'au is going to have a hall ' of its own mtexl. summer. ' A large tesa oi bush will go down ' this spring, one man putting down four hundred acres. Work: is fairly plentiful, but difficult to get at. A good many are travelling, looking for work. I.nt it is doubtful' whether they ' want it, . c