Warea is twenty-six miles by coach from New Plymouth, and seventeen miles from Opunake. It is the centre of a dairy farming district in the Parihaka riding of the county of Taranaki. Warea lies west-by-north of Mount Egmont and forms part of the Cape survey district of the Taranaki land district. The settlement has a dairy factory, a creamery, a sawmill, and a flax mill; and the business of the post, telegraph and telephone office is conducted at the general store. Warea has also a public school and a town hall, with a public library.

The Warea Post Office, Telegraph Office, and Telephone Bureau, Warea. The business of these departments is conducted by Mr. C. H. King, who is further referred to as a storckeeper.

The Warea Public School stands on a section of four acres, on which there is also a residence for the teacher. The average attendance is forty, and Miss Alice Evans is teacher in charge.

The Warea Co-Operative Dairy Company, Limited ; Secretary, Mr. Hugh Bailey, Brougham Street, New Plymouth. The Warea Co-operative Dairy Factory is situated near the Warea Post Office. The plant is up-to-date, and includes a Tangye six horse-power boiler, an Anderson's sixteen horse-power water turbine, an engine of six horse-power, two De laval separators, each of 440 gallons capacity, a Humble and Son's freezer of one ton capacity, a De Laval pasteuriser, two churns of 700 and 300 pounds capacity respectively, a Holben and Kirk butterworker, a McGowan hoist, an insulated cream vat, a Tangye special type pump, and a Triumph skim milk weighing machine. There is a creamery in connection with the factory at Newall road. The staff consists of a factory manager and two assistants, and a creamery manager.

Mr. Victor Percy Robinson, Manager of the Warea Co-operative Dairy Factory, was born in the year 1880, at Gospori, Hants, England, but afterwards lived at Southampton, where he was educated. He was for some time subsequently in a solicitor's office, and in 1899 came to New Zealand, went to Taranaki, and worked in the Oakura Dairy Factory. Mr. Robinson afterwards removed to the Rangitikei district as a factory assistant, but returned to Taranaki, and was for two years assistant in the Warea Factory. Later, for two years, he was in charge of the Newall road creamery before receiving his present appointment.

Mr. V. P. Robinson.

King, Charles Henry, General Storekeeper, Warea. This business was established in the year 1889, and acquired by Mr. King in 1904. Full stocks of groceries, drapery, ironmongery, boots and shoes, etc., are carried, and goods are delivered by cart throughout the district. Mr. King was born in 1869, in Northampton, England, where he was educated, and was subsequently employed in a warehouse. In 1885 he came to New Zealand, and was for many years in Wellington, in a warehouse, before acquiring his present business. Mr. King is secretary of the Warea Hall Committee, and conductor of the choir of the Presbyterian church. While in Wellington he was for twelve years conductor of St. James Presbyterian choir at Newtown, and was a member of the Wellington Orchestral Society, and the Wellington Liedertafel. Mr. King is married, and has three children. He is further referred to in connection with the Post Office at Warea.

Burgess, James, Farmer, “Greenburn,” Warea. Mr. Burgess's property consists of 108 acres of freehold land, on which he conducts dairying. He takes a keen interest in horticulture, and has successfully exhibited in all the shows held on the Coast. Mr. Burgess is further referred to as a member of the Egmont County Council.