THE WHAKATANE SWAMP.

Press, Volume L, Issue 8482, 13 May 1893, Page 4

THE WHAKATANE SWAMP.

TO THE »MTO* Of TH- P_«SS. Sib —With reference to a paragraph in | your 'Wednesday's issue, and copied from ; Jn Auckland paper, having reference tothe Whakatane Swamp, I have no fault to Bud I therewith, but wrote in the middle of the storm, and imagined the damage and moonveniences wit-out going to see for himself. I am in receipt, from the dram contractors, who are at present camped about the centre of the block, of news as follows :—" We have just had a tremendous rain for the past niift days, but no damage has been done and it is now line weather. All through the wet weather we I were high and dry, as the drams took the I water away as fast as it fell, and the day after the rain stopped we were out digging for an orchard." So you wul set what effect the drams have had on the swamp, which, as I have stated before, only wants the drains put though. The Association, no doubt, has a bad beginning as regards weather, and some few had an idea that they were going into a " dry swamp," but I do not know of any of its members who are disheartened with the "poorprospects" referred toby the correspondent, and with regard to its ultimate success we have little or no doubt. Every month takes fresh numbers away north, and next spring we expect that nearly every section, forty-one in number, will be represented.—Yours, &c, W. A. Murray.