The disadvantages of living in the backblocks were demonstrated to a creamery manager in the King Country recently. On account of a road not permitting vehicular traffic lie was compelled to knock his furniture to pieces, pack it in boxes, and send it to Te Kuiti, via Kawltia and Onebnuga, in all 300 miles, necessitated for the want of 15 miles of roadway.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3100, 13 August 1913, Page 54
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