PAPAROA

Wairoa Bell, Volume IV, Issue 155, 22 July 1892, Page 5

PAPAROA

[FROM OUE OWN CORRESPONDENT.] One of onr local Industrie..?, the brick manufacturing trade, is apparently looking up again. Our local kilns have for some time been standing idle, but Mr E. Redfern, having returned from Mareretu wanderings, has recently recommenced the manufactxxre of bricks etc-» at his works near the Paparoa St,earn Landing. The large mound of earth forming one side of the cutting at the end of the Paparoa bridge, near the jetty, is now being removed, it having been found to be[ati awkward obstruction to the traffic of drays, etc. at the landing. Mr Arnold is the contractor. Rumour also hath it that the small goods shed and wharf are to be enlarged and altered by the Council The present wharf is found to be too low, as the high spring tides sometimes cover it. However, whether the wox-k is to be undertaken soon, or in the “ hazy future,” I cannot say Otamatea County Council management is bai-dly the perfection which your “ Wairoa to Warkworth ” coi - respondent would have us believe. Although we have no doubt a good deal to be thankful for, and our lot as compared with that of some of the neighbouring counties is perhaps an enviable one, yet we are not without our grie vances. For instance, take the childish tomfoolery and absence of gumption and common sense displayed in the case of road formation or improvemont, in this district, at all events. A portion of the road between here and Matakohe has lately been improved (?) Instead of the work having been done in the spring, and the earthwork allowed the summer and autumn in which to set and harden, the time has been fooled away, and now, when the wet season has set in or nearly so, a man, with a cart, and horses, plough,etc, is put on at the last moment, at a high wage (day work), tbe road is formed, the new earth being thrown into the middle of the ‘ thoroughfare,’ a number of men, also on day work, being emploj ed in this glorious mud-larking , and now with the winter’s heavy rains falling on the fresh soil, the road is converted into a pleasant bog. a second ‘ Stcugh of Despond.’ proving an attractive spot in which the pH-.-i.ig : .;r- =’■ '• loves to linger, and an existing memorial *.n ■ hi. infinite wisdom of the ‘powers that be’ in Paparoa. ‘ 'Jake?ioteofthis, ye Hobson County Councillors. Consider this. (Vide Wairoa Bell, June 24th, p. 2.)