TURAKINA OR "SCOTS' LAND"?

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 563, 19 July 1909, Page 10

TURAKINA OR "SCOTS' LAND"?

: In Scots land I It is close- upon thirty years since T first went to Turakina (writes our travelling correspondent),, and at" that time it was, 1 to my mind, one of the prettiest settlements: I had yet seen, in .-New Zealand. Even at that distant date, it had a quaint, od-fashioned look, and.l thenthoiigit, and am still of the same opinion . that Inrakma" was just-as'pretty in name' as it was-, in, its surroundings; After- many years; I ■have again made a journey up''the Turakina River,.and it now seems'-'as if ; it was wTongly named;' ,; It should, bo "'Scots' land. Starting' at the' township, one meets Scotchmen, ; on all-sides. ; And all tho way up the river the settlers are. from Caledonia Here.;are a few: Glasgow, Ross, : -M'Gregor Lowno, M'Pherson, Jf'Lean, M'Lcay, Bruce Duncan,. ana Sutherland. ■'' .'' ■ '; ' I A good deal of the Turakiua country has been jscrub land,, while. other parts have been very, heavy manuka, and. the balance bush land. It is excellent sheep country and carries a largo amount of stock. Turn' iflgout of tba Ifimaaioo Va%„ ud

up-stroam, Mr. N. ..Sutherland 1 !) homestead is soon on a hill; the run in mn.na K od by ono of his sons, lio hinißolf re«idiii|{ nt Lamb UIJ, t :" c * r I'ordoll. T,,on tllo '"•""I winds up lull and down dale for many a inilo. lnoro, is no metal, andtlm day I rodo up, it was raining hard, with a biting oast' wind alioad, so that it was impossiblo to go out of a walk on tlio slopes. To liavo scon this country <m a fino, sunny day would havo boon a treat, but,; oven in tho rain, I could sco what a beautiful' country it must bo.