A RISING TOWNSHIP.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 34, 10 February 1922, Page 4

A RISING TOWNSHIP.

To the younger generation stepping off at Tc Kuiti or passing through by train, that rising township—perhaps in deference to the inhabitants we say "risen"—is merely a. provincial town. To older people, however, it has its history and romance. It? growth, of which particulars arc given in n series of special article?, published to-day, is typical of the recent progress of thp Auckland province, once the handicap of the early days had "been overcome. Te. Kuiti lips in the King Country, a name thai .-till carries .1 suggestion of backwardness ajid semi-civilisa-tion. Native difficulties —wars and land troubles —interfered with Auckland provincial progress more seriously than most. pfoplo here, and elsewhere am aware, and Te Kuiti's rapid rise in a comparatively few years from thp status of a tiny straggling nondescript settlement, to avoid living in which most men would have paid heavily—to the busy, wealthy, well-equipped, up-to-date town of today, tells the. story of a great provincial change. The King Country has be-en conquered, but what has been achievpd i> only an indication of what is in store for the district. Prejudice may linger long, for the meaning of words is hard to kill or wear down, but nothing can prevent, the continued progress of the district of which this town is the centre.