FERNFLAT.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12470, 22 February 1909, Page 4

FERNFLAT.

In the afternoon I paid a visit to Fern Flat, some five miles below Murchison ana situated on the opposite bank of, the Buller river which 's crossed on the punt. There is an' air of quiet rural . homluiess about Fern' Flat, and -it seems to be'aiplace that has. been settled for many : years. Its population is riot large; but all living there have good homes, and appeartpbe making a cbmf brtable living.* There is a school, post office, arid a snug and particularly clean hotel, presided over •for many years by- Mrs Hunte, who, I hear, intends to shortly settle down in Nelson. -'•_. , - . „..