PIO PIO COUNTRY
Backblocks No Longer Out to the south-west of Te Kuiti, on the main route to New Plymouth, lies Pio Pio. once the symbol up north for a real outbaek baekblocks district. , Now the settlement is served by a sealed road along which traffic speeds at 40 to 50 miles an hour. Not so long ago people there fought their weary mud-bound way each winter at nearer that mileage a day. This is a district worthy of development. The country is easy and looks fertile. Here were seen wide areas of excellent swede crops and more eattle than I have seen anywhere else —real cattle country. They were not in hundreds but in seeming thousands. And about 98 per cent, appeared to be Aberdeen Angus. One fly iu the ointment was ragwort. There is too much of this about. As a stock-raising district this are:' possesses two valuable attributes—a good climate with easy winters, and a splendid market for store stock iu the Waikato, quite close to band.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 160, 1 April 1939, Page 4 (Supplement)
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170PIO PIO COUNTRY Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 160, 1 April 1939, Page 4 (Supplement)
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