COUNTRY NEW

Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 250, 19 October 1904, Page 6

COUNTRY NEW

« i TOKATOSA. "tt'roru Our Own Correspondent.) . j The sew school building at Naumai .Mill, j at present beinp: erected for the Board of I Education, is approaching completion. Mr Foster is the contractor, and it should not be long now before Mr Stone, the teacher, is iv possession. The hailding will be a ■ rast improvement on the temporary one | formerly used. • . This milling centre is rapidly growing. A large number of cottages -were recently erected for the marripd men employed at the mill, while Mr K. M. Clark, storekeeper j at Tokatoka, has secured a good business | site close tr> the wharf and mill, aud in- j tends opening a general store. The Xaurcai ; Mill cuts no kauri timber, but works chiefly • in kahiliatea and rimu. . Some more specimens of opnls bave been obtained here by the same party, and are cousidered much better than the first lot obtained. They have been forwarded to Messrs Stewart Dawson and Co.. jewellers in Auckland. A public meeting held in Culleu's Hotel. Tokatoka. ou Saturday evening decided that sports be held in the hotel paddock on Friday, December 23. A strong committee was formed, with Mr VT. 1L Gelling as secretary-