Ngā Rauropi Whakaoranga

Family lived on Otara Run, past Fortrose, at the mouth of the Mataura in Southland. Article describes the beauty and abundance of the land. "The flax honey was so plentiful that gallons of it could be shaken out of the flower stalks by one person in a few hours in a calm morning" Wild berry season - rich fuchsia berry, large snowberry, some sweet-berried coprosmas, etc. Mutton -"sweet flesh fed on native grasses and aniseed that cannot be got now". (Anise = Gingidia montana Ed.)