Kereru is a small farming district, sixty-five miles from Wellington on the Wellington-Manawatu Railway line. There is a public school, with an average attendance of about twenty-five. The nearest telegraph office is at Otaki eighteen miles to the south. Mails for Kereru close daily at Wellington at 6 a.m., arriving at Kereru at 10.35 a.m. The return mail closes daily at Kereru at 7.30a.m., arriving at Wellington at 1 p.m.

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