Settlers in the back country in from Taumarunui, states the Taihape "Times," have .by no means a luxurious time of j it. According to the Key. J. 1. Monfries, ! flour, in one district cost the people from 20s. to 28s. per cwt. The staple article j of diet was in consequence lentils. Things I had to be taken in on pack horses, and the roads and tracks were in such a fearful state that he noticed, when in I there recently, that a number of these horses had died, through being bogged in the mud. Speaking as a man with a thoroughly practical knowledge of farming, he said the land was very good, but the progress of the country would be much retarded until roads were made.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 250, 19 October 1908, Page 6
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