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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 7, Issue 1 (May 1, 1932.)

Towns of the Plain

Towns of the Plain.

Featherston town, a pretty place of gardens and orchards, is spread along a fan-like slope at the base of the Tararua Ranges, and commands a view of the lake page 20 far down to the hills of Palliser Bay. Tauherenikau racecourse, close by, is a really charming spot, with its clumps of native bush, thoughtfully preserved; it is in this sylvan quality the prettiest racecourse in the Island, a place which many of its frequenters make a picnic rendezvous. A beautiful place with a poetic sounding name; it means the binding together of nikau palm-tree fronds.

Roads radiate from Featherston to all parts of the Wairarapa Plain, and anyone of these will give the traveller panoramas of blended Nature and the results of the industrious settlers' toil. The growth of English trees is particularly to be noted here.

Greytown and Carterton, old established places, are each the business centre for thriving districts of moderately-sized farms.