OPANAKE.

Wairoa Bell, Volume IV, Issue 159, 19 August 1892, Page 2

OPANAKE.

ri'BOM A COIIItESPONEEKT.) Considerable satisfaction was felt by settlers and others on reading the paragraph in the Rrtnn informing them that Mr Houston had interviewed the Minister respecting the approach to the Opanake railway station, and that the latter nad promised to send a surveyor up to attend to the matter. It is to be hoped that our member having been so far successful will go a little farther and endeavour to get tome sort of station and goods sheds •(.reeled, We have to thank the editor of he for having helped us so well in these matters and hope he will continue to

8 and by us Wo have precious lbtle to thank the Dnrgnville print for. Had the well-named township of monopoly wanted a tenth part of the amount expended upon it, and that tenth had to come out of the public funds, the editor would have thought nothing of devoting two or three columns to i he subject. I am glad to be able to report the completion of riie new suspension bridge. Pedestrians can now cross the river in saferv, Tin' new lo in-.., f! vm-v improvement on i ;.e ...I s! roivu'i r an i higher.. ibe natives who erected it deserve credit for the way in which they have performed the work. The Maorh-s at Opanake are getting ready for potato planting and it is evidently their intention to try and obtain good crops. They have got a lot oi' new seed up from Auckland. The road between here and the Bluff has beer, in much better order this winter, thanks to money spent upon it by the County Council, and we are in hopes that when the fine weather sets in, if funds will allow, they will touch up some parts that are still rather bad.