SELF-HELP SPIRIT
WOMAN WHO WANTED ROAD. That the pioneering spirit is not yet extinct, but that settlers are still prepared to help themselves, was made evident at a meeting of the Taranaki County Council the other day. A settler in the Okato district, Mrs. W. F. Goodwin, being desirous of expediting the metalling of a portion of the Carrington Road, which work had been delayed on account of difficulty in raising the loan money, offered to advance the necessary £345 to enable the work to proceed. It was hard, she said, to have to pay rates, and in addition to find the money to metal what was practically a main road, not in the backblocks, but only four and a half miles from Okato. She had already metalled one road at a cost of £9l, and then tourists used it and erected their tents.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXV, Issue 3279, 14 March 1931, Page 2
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144SELF-HELP SPIRIT King Country Chronicle, Volume XXV, Issue 3279, 14 March 1931, Page 2
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