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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 721, 21 January 1910, Page 8

BUT PRODUCTIVE. • When I was at "Wairongo"i Mr.- Merecor-: :M®ftho.; ;a?fine':'big'Hhe; of:.;i(3eccs '~:th6y were,. //I '.was.{interested. later to seo ;.ithat :this wool brought lid; at tho -Wei-' wle." •. After leaving Mi.- Merevfawsdith's,; tho . road- (after t a,- time) lea ds: to itho beach, ahd one coracs to "Uriti," tho' the' coast. A-.very.;large quantity.of:.wool:is shipped .v;).-.'",: from:, here. :;,-It; ; has. a natural harbour. of: : only. workaWe in,,fine weather. : Somo of' tho Btemer3;i whichvi'work '''the'. l v 'East;|;. Coast of 1 oil paunches i' others uso ordinary., surf boats, ! . as, generally 1 speaking,: i; are difficult ot approach, even by the busy little k\sxsteamers that .pass,,--. puißng -:,along the' -tiny green or led spot of light by night shedsj ::with:;W)olf r when I:• passed, and. some. of the; settlers ;;;:'-';; : ; ;: were ansiously-' lookihg ' for - tho - steamer |-:';:7V':to : tako - out '.their .clips,, and thus mako .;;,-';.. : -,room:;for' that .-which was ready., for the ißhcd.-. Thero, is .a fairly good beach, past :- ! - —very nice to - canter over—and at •.• ; /.';:. jono time:this stretch of sand, like 1 many on''-the:East .Co'astv-used: tobe.a ••-.•..'yVgood spot' for coUectiug. firewood.- It" is : -\;;.;.;inot so now.'''-;; At- oriQ timo 'also. 'a largo > l; ' "quantity, of; totara fencing posts wero ob- : retainable, .but,-.las witli ;every other good •Jl/i/thing in.;: this\- world, ' "first come first lii■■miserved" is;the iron rule whicli everywhere ; obtains;.. and; they,■ too,-aro iiow non;est.i ; Nono :of : .the . existing. timber - which "I: 1 ; i .:.l'';; Baw. was ariy good,;, the bigger; logs being ;:4iv. : ,quite ..decayed, and .the: smaller,lnot good, tor anything. There is no doubt that firing, in ..these: remote places will bo a' r.' , : | ":v.*' more, attention': is paid: to. plantiug:-b'uit~' ablo timber. t \ ' . Tllß road uoxfc-tnrns -nff; frnm +lin liorif.li

: . finiand,_ and soon, a ..big -patch of _gums • ; /_-,': !and other trees .'coihcs- into view.7 This ■'Y- Js "Kivßrsdalo/'.tho property:of ;llr- Doni.; / i «id . Eraser, . and formerly- owned by -Mr .Meredith,v?a : very ■ early • settler on 'tho ,wi6h'rinqst: of;fthc ,-v.:.-;«- 1 !runs, : in:..,this .paTt . of,-.the country, this : ..;holdmg contains..a considerable area of: jplpughaijlo, laud,,-!unlike - the 'land-'further , nortli, inhere the Lills. CO mo down almost to the water s edge 1 "Knersdale", is now ffl u ™t^»er.proiK r ty--thnn;iii its!early. _«ays, a.considerp,blo,portion of; it'having t been disposed of. Still at, is a handy little run, and Mr leaser, who hails from Canterbury, is very' well satisfied with his venture .■*.,T.,v., Just across .tho -stream," which-divides' the two properties, is "Orui," Mr E Eiddiford's station Mr. Riddiford himt self . manages . tho ■'• r Tabloiaads" ' station .-:.,. near Maxtinborough, and , has'a -manager at "Orui" Ho was" there l at the time r.- ot .my.-, visit,,'however,,it . being shearing i 1 , time., This is raostly hilly and " rolling I .' carrying A KOod deal of . scrub, ift- ,-/?; but capital shesp land; - .One noticed willr •»/.,/•. isbmo surprise that "Orui" is not. yet'on" '.' /- rtho tdephone.r -It /.is simply wonderful : a, -marvcUoos /.convenionbe • tho - telo-' jeSs;iphbhe 'is to. the' people away in"'the back .'-,./ • country,- and niany,-'of :them aro'. now ./f i "hitched up" The 1 traok from "River-dale" runs utte '/pa'dddeks; :for distance,' all among tho hills, and at last it strikes . tho, main:-road' from: "llome-.vood "- Til's ~V,;,; i ., Toad; : is ■ kept in - very -, good order, : though' daresay.'that it -would-:not fstand very Jute heavy:; traffic,/as'/the'iihetal 'isinbt' of/the/ ~ - - best.-This, - -however,- -is immaterial ■at present, as most of the heavier - .' ,botli inwards and-outwards,.-goes-by sea i-iV'.s's <;Tho;nest;place/up the- lVhareama- Val-' i ley is Mr. Taylor's run It is mce-looking country, running- away high- . hills at ; tho back of..''T3lairlogie," 'bnt:'as Mr. i'aylor was not at home, I did not go m. A bit further on, and a fine . stretch of country _is seen, mce-rollinß do « ns nf d riTer Tiils is "Kolnwai',', Mr. aoogood's;station..'- The, hmtse;"i? -~ : r . ? about' half-a-milo. off • tho road, : ; well-sh'elr "-p!Mtaiions; -.and is/a very prcttyj-, ' ■■ J- imagine .that; is odo of tho best stations in,tlio distnot. To . I^s uotr' -largc rproperty/'|but the land is, on the whole, of a more , average good quality, and there are Borne ix& i. paddocks * r downnear tho &:ayj(7Y^ r^m a-.' , Eiver,t./the .//catilb'/m iijli;^;^^eA®B l^^ d -^ACToss:;tKe/nver;>from ; Kohiwai is lea' station, tho property of the late Eov L C Andrew, the ini- , tials of his name, "I G.A," making the I'.? -of.,the- station;- -This■ properly: i s - : '%^^^ly^^tto members of , the-