NEW SPECIAL SETTLEMENT.
OPENING OF A BRIDGE. [BI X3LEGBAPH— SPECIAL TO THB 20STj% TE KUITI, This Day. Mapara, the new special settlement on the northern boundaiy of the Taranaki lard district, was en fete yesterday, the occasion being the opening of a bridge for traffic over the Mokau river. The settlement is just one year old, and there are over eighty settlers on sections, with forty children at school age. The settlers are mostly from Taranaki, though the übiquitous West Coaster and others from the sonth are amongst them. The settlers intend supplying'the Pio Pio dairy factory. There were over three hundred persons present, including Maoris, who were dancing hakas, when Mr W. T. Jennings, 31.P., arrived to declare uhebridge open. Telegrams from the Premier and the Minister for Public Works were read, and a number of M.P.'s expressed by telegraph the wish that the settlers would be able to cart a ton of butterover the bridge nest season. ' This settlement and the adjoining one, Tangituone, are in a fair way toprosperity.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 20, 25 January 1911, Page 7
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172NEW SPECIAL SETTLEMENT. Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 20, 25 January 1911, Page 7
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