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WAIPUKURAU.

WAIPTiKURAU is a pretty and thriving country town in the Hawke’s Bay Province, situated about 44 miles from Napier, on the railway

line connecting that town with Woodville and Wellington. The surrounding country is admirably adapted lor sheep farming, the neighbouring station of Mount Vernon, the property of the late Mr John Harding’s family, being well-known as one of the most valuable pastoral properties in the province. Mt.

Vernon Estate consists of about 16,000 acres of magnificent pasture, pretty alluvial flats, and partly limestone hills from which, looking southward, the snowclad ridges of the Ruahines can be seen. Part of the property reaches close up to the township of Waipukurau, which takes its name from the Waipukurau River, on which it is situated. The town sections are held for the most part under long leases, the original owner, the Hon. H. R. Russell, wishing to retain

some control with regard to the laying off of streets and erection of buildings. Amongst the principal buildings are these of the banks doing business there, the Public Library, Hospital, and school, and a most comfortable country hotel. The township of Wai pawa is five miles distant. With the subdivision of the surrounding land settlement is certain to increase in the neighbourhood, and doubtless Waipukurau will become the centre of a prosperous agricultural anti pastoral district.

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New Zealand Graphic, 25 December 1899, Page 21

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WAIPUKURAU. New Zealand Graphic, 25 December 1899, Page 21

WAIPUKURAU. New Zealand Graphic, 25 December 1899, Page 21

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