PIONEERS OF WAIRARAPA.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 342, 31 October 1908, Page 3

PIONEERS OF WAIRARAPA.

.(To the Editor.), Sir,—The writer of : " Some Thoughts of the Old Days" under tlio heading of "The Wairarapa Show " in Wednesday's issue has a few • errors that would be just as well promptly corrocted; and if -you .will ■ allow one who has -spent half a .century in the district : and knows something-about it I will just, follow your article. • In the list of-those who broke, over the Rimutaka as pioneers you' are wrong in. in-: eluding? .tho Carters, the Booths, tho Buchanans, and the' Martins, for -nono of these reached Wairarapa to settle till long after the pioneering had, been done, though some of them had ohanced through the -Wairarapa in the pioneer days. Carterton had a couplo of years' start when the Moores and tho Callisters came along (one of each). Mr. C. R. Carter was not a pioneer or settler, and had nothing to do with the founding of iCarterton,. thela known as the Three Mile Bush; and, indeed, it was not at first.intended to be anything more than a temporary domicile for some poor emigrants -who were sent to Carterton really to open out the main road; Mr. Carter was a builder in Wellington at that time, and a year or two elapsed before he bought "Carter's Hill." ' The settlers were' still' poor, and when a meeting was called ,to consider naming, the settlement it was decided to name it after. Mr. Carter —not because of anything ho had done, but to sue for favours to come. ' It was felt that as Mr. Carter was an employer of some" ■ consequence, and had just bought a good slice of country, they would- secure " tho favour " of emSloyment, by naming the township after him. loubtless .Mr. Carter never knew tho motive actuating that meeting, and though there was no advantage then from -the toadying, Mr. Carter behaved handsomely in later years by leaving'some 2000 acres of good land for the benefit of Carterton's aged poor men of the present and future generations. Mr. Carter, of- course, represented us in tho Provincial Council, and iu other ways worked for : . Wairarapa, and Carterton in particular. .. The names of Gray Bros, and W. B.; Allen can in no sense be. read with such early breeders as the Beethams or Matthews, for Mr. Allen was a carpenter in nis early days, and-the Gray Brothers only became sheepbreeders after' their father' had earned a competence as a blacksmith in Masterton. Those men have, of course, done a good deal with good-sheep breeding in more recent years.—l am, etc., v LOOKING BACKWARD. • "FREEZINC WEIGHTS." ' THE CLASS OF LAMB MOST IN PE- - ■ MAND. .. •It is a well-known fact -to New Zealand sheeprowners that the class of lamb for which the highest prioe per pound is obtainable is for' medium weights of prime quality. The difficulty seems to -be to get lambs in prime condition at these weights; but this difficulty, like many others, is very much ipore apparent than real. Given the proper breed of lambs and adequate feed, the first essential is that lambs are freed from parasites before being, turned on to same, and the : best and cheapest means possible .to obtain/this end'is to pass them through a bath of Quibell's Non-poisonous Fluid Dip—the finest preparation obtainable for this purpose. • A poisonous' dip should never on any account be' used for -this operation, ,as such dips'always have'a-tendency to give tender lanjbsra,-check; ; which means valuable feed lost and money, wasted. Quibell's NoriTppisojious 1 Dip . only should; /be "used. - ". 7776 AUCKLAND, V, WELLINGTON. '' . , • - MAIN .TRUNK LINE TRADE. , [BI TKUtGBAPH.—SPECIAL COERKSPONDSNT.J Auckland, ..October 30. 1 ' Auckland merchants, While' feeling that Mr..F. E. Baume only intended to convey a kindly, warning when referring to 'Auckland and Wellington trade competition along thd Main Trunk line in his" speech on Wednesday, express themselves as quite confident. that Auckland will more than ■ hold its own' in the trade war. One prominent'merchant, speaking to a reporter yesterday, remarked that Auckland was able to compete with Wellington in commerce and evon to beat it along the Main Tnink, and he instanced the fact that at Gisborne Auckland merchants were underselling Wellington • merchants and securing' the trade., 'When the time came for a reckoning up it would, be found that Auckland had more thaji held its own, and 'in spite of the reputed "smartness" of Wellington commercial travellers the Aucklan4 houses were, going to secure tho business: Thoy did not fear all tha competition or all the agents.that Wellington could >put into the fiSd. • .