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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Wellington Provincial District]

Bideford

Bideford, a small farming settlement in the Wairarapa North County, is seventy-nine miles from Masterton. A coach runs from Masterton as far as Taueru, and the journey thence may be made on horseback, or by carriage or other conveyance. Most of the residents are engaged in farming and similar pursuits. For the education of the young there is a public school, at which the average attendance is about twenty. Mails for Bideford close at Wellington on Tuesdays and Saturdays at 6.45 a.m., arriving at Bideford at 5 p.m.; and close at Bideford on Tuesdays and Saturdays at 7.30 a.m., arriving at Wellington at 7.50 p.m.