ALONG THE ROAD

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 134, 8 June 1935, Page 20

ALONG THE ROAD

"Yesterday afternoon" I went to the cross-roads past Karori Park and on the arms it said Makara Bay 9 miles, pointed to South Karori Road. The Wellington 5 miles, and trfe1 other hills were bedecked with the golden glory of the gone; the braying of a donkey was heard, and on looking I discerned it standing on a'lonely knoll by a straggling farm-house, surrounded by mooing cows and barking dogs. A brook ran on and on till it reached a little white bridge, with little trout darting hither and thither and an empty farm-house which looked bleak and cold, as though 'it needed some cheery per&on to fill it with laughter. On, oayre trampedstill we came to an old farm lying back from the road, and on the porch sat a family of six watching us on our way. The beautiful New Zealand tree ferns, with many native rose abovcall the thickets on the water' 3 edge. It was a glorious long, wide, windy stream continuing under a long, broken-down bridge, and on either side the banks were covered witb the tall stately fronds of, the pungas. "LITTLE GLADNESS", (13K