OPENING UP THE MOKAU DISTRICT.
— * fBT IELEGSATH — SPECIAL TO THE POST.] NEW PLYMOUTH, This Day. The Alokau district, well-known in connection with litigation, has been attracting great attention lately. Twelve i thousand acres near Totoro have been taken up by a southern syndicate, j which, it is said, includes an ex-Cabinet Minister. This week Messrs Beauchamp (chairman of the Bank of New Zealand), Watson (director;, Blundell (manager of the bank at New Plymouth), motored through to Te Kuiti and went up the nver to the coal mines, all expressing astonishment at the beautiful sceneryThe Mokau River Trust Board held its annual meeting at Mokau yesterday, Messrs. Nichols (chairman), Jennings, M.P., and Walter Jones being present. Twenty-seven miles of river have been snagged by the board, and the water is navigable for steamers carrying thirty tons of cargo. The opening up of the country in South Auckland and North Taranaki land districts in the past six years is now showing great results. At present over 2000 bales of wool are stored by the Waltara Harbour Board for transhipment from the Waitara port by ocean liners, which take away frozen meat from Borthwiek'fi Waitara freezing works.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 15, 19 January 1911, Page 7
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194OPENING UP THE MOKAU DISTRICT. Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 15, 19 January 1911, Page 7
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