TO THE HOT SPRINGS VIA PATEA RIVER.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.
Sir, — I was somewhat startled on reading the Patea Mail of the 14th instant, to learn what a glorious prospect was in store for this district, by the opening up of direct communication between here and the Hot Springs via the Patea Eiver. I have always been under the impression that " the small river close to our doors " commenced its career at Mount Egmont, and not somewhere in the far interior ; but I suppose I must be mistaken, and it will eventually be found out that there is no river crossed at Stratford called the Patea. I have not the slightest idea whose imaginative brain conjured up such a beautiful " scheme for the future," but it was certainly rather a good line coming to Patea to tell the inhabitants that their river took its rise in the "far interior," and that it had been canoed, over rapids and snags, a " hundred miles up." This was a bit of news we were hardly prepared for, and will no doubt be the means of bringing thousands of tourists to this country. Can't you, sir, work up a little scheme for the future? Give us something we can take in, and not something that will take us in. — I am, &c,
Taupo.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume I, Issue 5, 28 April 1880, Page 3
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222TO THE HOT SPRINGS VIA PATEA RIVER. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume I, Issue 5, 28 April 1880, Page 3
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