Our Woodville Letter.

Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 102, 2 May 1890, Page 3

Our Woodville Letter.

{Our Own Correspondent.) Woodville, 30th April. Tho Woodville Sohool Committee was oleoted on the 28th. The report of the past year showed that the buildings, fences, _c, had been sadly negleoted by the Education Board, every reply to applications being that the Board had no fnnds. The Education Board, ho— ever, can have no excuse in the futnre, as they have reduced the capitations to teachers by one half, thus saving something like JSGOO or .£7OO. This should be sufficient annnally to provide for needed repairs, the neglect of which means utter deoay of all buildings in tho very noar futnre. The following were eleoted members of the committoo :— Messrs. Bliss, Taylor, Sowry, Payne, Homo. Cross, and Lowis. The Rev. W. Colenso is staying at Woodville just now, and whilo here is officiating as clergyman at the English Church, in the absence of an appointed' minister, the Rev. Mr. Dean having been appointed to a ohuroh at Napier. Mr. Beetham, M.H.R., visited Woodville to-day. He looked well after his trip to Europe. He stated he would contest the Masterton seat against all comers, and knew of only one man so far who would oppose him, namely, Mr. MoCardle. Mr. Hill, the Sohool Inspector for Hawka's Bay district, lectured on the Tarawora eruption, in the Free Methodist Church, on Monday night. The lecturer always enters into this subject with great zest, and invariably succeeds in creating a deep interest. Several informations have been laid against a brewer at Pahiatua, named Jeasop, for infringements of the Beer Duties Aot. It is alleged that Mr. Ormond has nucceoded in leasing from the Natives over 2000 aores of land immediately adjoining the Manawatu River on the Wellington sido. Tenders will shortly be called for felling it. It is reported that over 100 applications were put in for land in the Forest Reserve lately opened up near Kumeroa. The demand for land is as great as ever, and tho cry is everywhere around here, " Why don't the Government offer land more quickly ; to dribble out a few hundred aorea every half year or so tries the patience of would-be settlers, and they are driven away, and not infrequently to other countries, where it may be had with greater facility." A land syndicate has just completed tho purohase and survey of a part of the Hon. John Johnston's estate at Woodvillo. Tho building lots of five aores average about .£2O per acre, whioh inolnded half a mile of rood and footpaths, Ac. The position is afino one, and the soil 13 good.