A PROTEST.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 73, 23 September 1908, Page 11

A PROTEST.

TO THE JEDITOB. i Sir, — I beg* to call the attention of the Land Board and the publio generally to tho aotion of tho Petone Borough Council in cutting into the domain behind the Petone station. This reserve was made over to tho council as trustees for the public. They are now putting in a cartway right up tho gully to open up a quarry or some other freak, and are destroying all the nativo shrubs and making the place an eyesore instead of a beauty spot. This roadway will not bo passable in the winter owing to heavy traffic, and the Korokoro settlers will have a nice time wading through tho mud and slush. This is not tho only time the local Borough Council has cut; up our roads and made them almost impassable. I refer £o damago done in carting material for the settling tank opposite the local store. It is the universal opinion of settlers that it amounts to almost desecration cutting this road into tho domain, and I very much question the council's right to do it. Had they wanted metal, there is sufficient to last for all time to be got up the Korokoro stream ; not only metal, but shingle that would answer for concrete work, etc., and they only require a right-of-way through tho Petone woollen mills' property, which I think could be taken under th"c Public Works Act, to cumo on to Crown land reserved behind tho settlement. These reserves are becoming scarcer as time goes on. and the powers that be ought to try and preserve them, instead of which we find our local council destroying tho only patch left about Petone, with the exesptdon of private-owned land. I would also invito all those intp^tsted to examine this spot?, and ace for themselves if if; will not destroy tho beauty of the whole gully if this work is caTried 1 out. — I am, etc., MAORI. Korokoro, 21st September, 1908.

At th» Lincolnshire Agricultural Society's annual show at Slcaford prizes were offered to tho agricultural labourers who had brought up and placed out the largest number of children, without having received parochial relief. Tho first prizq of £4 went to George Farmery, of Homswoll, Lincoln, who had had 23 children, 17 of whom wore brought up, and 14 placed out. The second prizo went to John Elscv, of Lusby, near Spilsby, who had had 14 children, 14 of whom were brought up, and 11 placed, out. The third prize winner was William Bell, of Crotby, Caistor, with 14 children born, 11 brought up, and tho same number placed out. Tho five men competing in tho clas3 had a total of 78 children..