HEREKINO.
(From our own Correspondent.) In this district we are experiencing a prolonged rainy season, being in the opinion of the oldest settler the wettest on record, which has been the means of giving abundance of grass and promises a splendid season for fruit and vegetables. Further away districts are oomplaining of excessive drought. Our superiority in this respeot can no doubt be attributed to propinquity to both east and west ooast. The Owhata sohool is now struggling on with average under five children, and is being kept on solely by the Board’s wishes. Surely this farce will not be repeated after the Xmas holidays. Our schools break up on Tuesday afternoon, the 13th inst., being about a oouple of days before the prescribed time. This is the usual oase in country schools that are a good distance from
steamer servioe, as otherwise it would entail a further week’s waiting. It is with pleasure that wo notioe in your valuable pap«T that the Mangonui County Council arc now going to make an effort to oollect rates from the Natives as they hold the largest portion of the land in this riding mid as yet have contributed nothing to formation and upkeep of roads whioh enhance the value of their properties.
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Northland Age, Volume VII, Issue 15, 10 December 1910, Page 5
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210HEREKINO. Northland Age, Volume VII, Issue 15, 10 December 1910, Page 5
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