DIFFICULT COUNTRY
Harihari, within four miles of which Menzies made his forced landing,; is fifty-three miles S.W. of Hokitika and thirty miles fi;om floss, on the only road south to the I'Vanz Joseph. ! It consists of an hotel, store, and about half, a dozen cottages. There are small clearings behind the houses, hacked by tho typical heavy buHi of the coast. 'l'he population is about fifty. Hie nearest place is Hess, which, although once a big town in tlie mining days, is now broken down and sparsely occupied. Apart from tho motor road there is praetieally no clearing on the coast until Hokitika is, reached. The homilies
arc steep, with lugs and with poor surface-, mostly shingle, as: at Oamanl. !
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Evening Star, Issue 20686, 8 January 1931, Page 7
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120DIFFICULT COUNTRY Evening Star, Issue 20686, 8 January 1931, Page 7
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