"PETONE'S KELBURN"

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 34, 9 August 1933, Page 8

"PETONE'S KELBURN"

HILL SETTLEMENTS

KOROKORO AND MAUNQARAKI

Pctoue is well built on on tlio flat, although there is still a certain amount of space for expansion there, and when, prosperity returns no doubt the hill settlements of Korokoro and Mauugaraki will, forge ahead as residential areas. The settlement? have been referred to in public as "tfce Kelburn of Potoue," Korokoro may be seen from the flat in Petone, but only-a part of Maungaraki, north of' Korokoro, is visible front the flat, Only a, p£rt of, Maungaraki is in the borough of Pe* tone, most of it being iv the * Hutt County Council's area, but the whola of Korokoro is in Petone; A magniftcent view is obtainable from the hill settlements. '■ . y ■. The Public Works Department Is ,at present engaged in tho construction of a road to Maungaraki from the main Korokoro Boad, as m unemployment 'work. At present there is only one vehicular road to the settlement. Thefe is a bus service to Korokoro, but not to Maungaraki. However, this does not eatail lnueli hardship to residents of Maungaraki, for the farthest point of the settlement in Petone district is only about half a mile from the bus stop. Korokoro : is within easy reach of the railway station. The Petone portion of Maungaraki is subdivided into four-acre sections, but of course it is capable of greater sub-, division, and this would, entail the making of access ways from the main road. Sewerage and gas are the only; facilities lacking at Maungaraki, but the gas mains could be extended from just over the boundary of the settlement if the demand warranted. There are about two hundred people living'in Korokoro. nnd the settlement was going ahead nicely before the slump. Korokoro requires a sewpragc systejji. The number of residents in Korokoro .and Maungaraki should increase rapidly when economic conditfoas improve.