HERRIOT HUNDRED.

Clutha Leader, Volume V, Issue 237, 24 January 1879, Page 6

HERRIOT HUNDRED.

[rfoji our owx con respondent.] We have got our holidays and sports all over, and each and. all have returned to our usual routine of business and work. We have had excellent growing weather for the last month — lino sunshine with occasional showers. The grain crops are looking splendid, and every appearance of all abundant harvest. There are many complaints in this district re the Post Office being removed from the Dunrobin, where it has been for the last three years. It is now kept at the Hcrriot School, in the extreme north end of the postal district, in fact the outside of the district. The settlers are not opposed to it being at the Schoolhouse, were it central. All the settlers south of the Dunrobin are ' quite isolated as far as the Post Office is concerned; owing to the change, and the consequence is that all are getting their letters privately from Tapanui. There were no complaints to warrant the change, as the settlers are all well satisfied with the way in which Mr Lomas kept the Post Office, and that without salary. Dunrobin was a longdistance from a number of the settlor, but they did not complain, o,s they knew it was a central place for the greatest number. I would say a visit from the Chief Postmaster is required, as I am of opinion the matter has been misrepresented to him, and it is a pity that such a large district should suffer from the advice of a few, which I believe to be the ease. I hear the settlers south of Dunrobin ave calling a meeting at the Swift Greek SehoolhousG, for the purpose of petitioning che Chief Postmaster upon the subject. The settlers are again alarmed at hearing of the SVood-xl Hill Bursh Ec«srve being leased for saw-mill purposes, one 'of thf; greatest robberies that has ever been perpetrated in the district. The settlers cot i\o chance of appealing, and fcho W.iste .Lands Board granted the application in spite of largely-signed petitions against ; 'he leasing of. the bush. The settlers v. ere led to understand, when taking up land, that this bush was reserved for the use of the settlers and o.hers. "Whoro we are to get firewood in a low years no one cantell. V. 7 oro there coal fco suit in tbo district, we would not cry so ]oudly ag-vint the evil. They have cut iv.vcy ov.v riglv, = without even giving us a chance to Kavo them.