KARAMEA: ITS ATTRACTIONS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 29, 4 February 1908, Page 3

KARAMEA : ITS ATTRACTIONS.

Mr. C. F. A. Broad, managor of the Ns.tional Bank, Greymoulh, formed ono of a large party of business men who recently visited Karamea* some of them for the first tiiuo,, others after the lapso of years. Karamea is reported to bo. fast recovering from the slackness which characterised it some time back, and Mr Broad, in the course 'of a talk with o-n Evening Post representative, was enthusiastic about tho prosperity of the town and district. "There aro now," he said "throe sawmills, two ■ flaxmills, and a creamery in full swing, and business generally is thriving. Tho navigation of the Karamea river has a bad n&mc, but that is, I am, given to understand, * capable of boing improved for a comparatively small sum— fbr certainly much less than tho £22,000 which has been mentioned a3 tho sum necessary to effect oomploto harbour Greymouth peoplo are inclined to cast a very kindly eye upon Karamea, and to help thosettiors ii) that district a-* much as_ possible. Tho fruit prospects are very brighj, too, the soil and climate being admirable for horticultural generally. I saw an orchard at Karamoa which wns th,e p,ink of perfection;, but I gathered that fruitgrowers in the district who follow tho most modern lines in their business vull meet with abundant; reward. Tho people aro in much better heart than formerly, ntid certainly appear to, me to be well disposed -to up-to-date methods in fruit, raising." Speaking of tho Heaphy river country, Mr- Broad paid the Lands Department was .favourable to an exploration survey being mado in thac region, and this would probably be done i Fishing is cood in Karamea,- flounder* being particularly abundauS. Trout are plentiful, in tho stro-nns, and the ccenery is extremely pretty.