SKETCHES ABOUT PAPAKURA.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 41, 8 October 1892, Page 1005

SKETCHES ABOUT PAPAKURA.

OCR pictures of Papakura al most sufliciently explain themselves. This charming little village is twenty miles south of Auckland, on the Great South Road which was constructed tor the transit of troops during the Maori war. It has often been said that Papakura is so Englisblike in outward and scenic appearance, that were an unsuspecting Biitishcr suddenly transj lanted from some Hampshire village he would scarcely realize he had left Home. The houses, the gardens, a l, ove all, the church, are extraoidinaiily English, ami the frog-ponds or meres have a singularly homelike appearance in the evenings to an expatriated Englishman. Fruitgrowing and farming aie the pi inc pal pursuits of the inhabitants, who are like all New Zealand’s country people — hospitable to the veige of recklessness. There are cattle yaids and gum fields—in fact, all New Zealand’s industries are well represented. The Masonic Hall attests the presence of that mystic brotherhood, and the Orangemen are strongly represented. A famous breeding establishment, that of Mr W. Walter's, is one of the show places of the distiict. For the rest the bits of picturesque Papakura chosen by our artist will, as we said at first, explain themselves.