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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 9, 5 October 1927, Page 11

An old Hawke’s Bav resident revisiting Havelock North'informed a reporter that he was quite amazed at the growth of settlement outside the town district of Havelock (states the Telegraph”). The village itself has not increased to any very great degree, but fields that he could remember as open sheep runs were now thickly settled by that most important class of settler—the small farmer. Everywhere on the Te Mata road w’ere maize ground, orchards in bloom, fields in cultivation, lucerne plots and pleasant homesteads amidst the sheltering trees. ‘lt is settlement like this,” he stated, that really makes for the betterment of a district.”