Waimate North.

Northland Age, Volume 2, Issue 46, 19 June 1906, Page 5

Waimate North.

(From our own Correspondent.) The various road contracts around the district are mostly well on towards a finish, and if these works could be done in summer and have time to set before winter we would have better roads at no more cost than that expended at present, especially where stone is scarce and clay predominates, which roads are now very heavy since the floods of last week. Quite a number of logs ipassed down the Waitangi River during the recent flood, which was not high enough to put any over the banks. The Kiripaki Bridge, near Oromahoe flax mill (Halliday’s), has been repaired and is now as good as new, having new stringers and nearly all new decking and well painted in the joints. Two very severe frosts—Sunday and Monday mornings respectively—so severe on Monday that ice was still on the road (in water holes) until 4 o’clock in the afternoon, which is remarkable seeing Monday was a beautiful day, while today (Tuesday) there is a beastly cold southeast rain.

I notice in several places where paspalum has been sown on trial the grass is gradually taking firm hold and promises to be one of our best grasses in the future. June 12, 1906.