RANGATAUA NOTES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 12567, 14 September 1908, Page 7

RANGATAUA NOTES.

Main Trunk Line

(From Our Own Correspondent). EANGATAUA, September 12.

The Government has at last moved in the matter of the disposing of our town sections. The sale has been looked for eagerly for the past six months, and there will probably be been competition for the best sections. Building operations are sure to commence with great activity as soon as people are sure of their tenure. The weather lately has favoured the Powell Process Co., and in consequence the erection of the works has gone on at a great pace. A rail tramway has been laid from the railway into the site, and the huge building is now in course of erection. By Christmas the preserved or "Powell'sed" timber should be on the market, and where, only a few months back, standing bush greeted the eye, a great industry will be in full swing. Mr Scrimgeour, stationmaster, is away on leave, and Mr Egan, of Wanganui, is relieving.

A store and boardinghouse is being built by Messrs Shemmings and McCready, and should prove a success. I hear, also, that another one is to be erected shrotly by Mr Gregory.

Five more cottages are going up for the rallwaj, making 11 in all. Slowly" but surely our town is growing, and in time to come Rangataua will be i town second to none on the Main Trunk Line. It will not be necessary to write ''Rangataua, near Ohakune," when giving the location, but the reverse.