A TRIP TO MOKAU, VIA PUKETITI AND AWAKINO.
TO TIIK I TUTOR .Sir, —Will you kindly allow me to express our obligations to your Travelling Correspondent, for the very able way in which he wrote his Mokau and Awaldno trip up. There is, however, one thing 1 should like to bring under your notice concerning the Manganui special settlement. Your correspondent has been told that 20 of tin in cone from Odiiani, and that 17 of these got al their bush down ; got the money for the work and promptly Uft the district. The facts are that, on 14th May, 1895. twenty-one of ns left Oamaiu for Mokau ; two of these took up the land at Manganui, and they are there y< t. E'cveu took up the land at Toemako ; these were all tnc married men who came, and there being no land for the single m n, they stayed as long as work was going on, and they are willing to come back and take up land, if they can get any to please them. Hoping you wiil publish this and let the public know that the Oainaru men have come to stay and not to run away.—l am, etc., W. J. SINCOCK, Secretary, Pocmako Improved Farm Settlement.
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Waikato Argus, Volume IV, Issue 285, 7 May 1898, Page 3
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209A TRIP TO MOKAU, VIA PUKETITI AND AWAKINO. Waikato Argus, Volume IV, Issue 285, 7 May 1898, Page 3
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