IN THE EARLY 90’s.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10392, 9 May 1927, Page 12 (Supplement)

IN THE EARLY 90’s.

“A TRAAiI’ S” mpprygTovc GISEBRXE. NOT “A C’.WK OF R.>HOPE-: OF T-'K FiINDUSTRY. “Such a notin'r inclcnr r: r, n |-. ; not” •wrote ‘d. Tramp” >* t.’a* ‘.V / Herald” in .August.. I ■■'vltifi* the memory cf the ea/i:e*t i 1 j-’-ii;- * Yet is the tr:desman hop.:-:! ;!i j V/,1 looks forward to a bright ? n i i owning summer to oompem-a- • fi-'m for the dulness of business during the winter. Gisborne is not a. -fare of Despair.’- Chrl.s*nir * must cuae and with it hundreds of if -t .'■.-»* !,ashwhackers, who are now in r : *e baek-bloc-ks beuing fortunes for the publican and the storekeeper. ”uh its falling hush, and the rise of the frozen meat industry. Gish arm* Ims. indeed, reasonable cause to be sanguine as to her future prosperity. “The enterprise of Afessrs. Nelson Bros, in establishing freezii g works in Gisborne has fiver a ■ iV-vi-d ;*rn-t----us to the prosneritv of the Lav. Land hitherto <•> usidered t o r m- to with but. doubtful j- roM>--ts oi i-—urr.ing interest on the capital expended on its cultivation, is now h is* - eagerly sought after and oremre 1. Thev say that the area of bush at mv-em under the axe i- greater than at any other period in the history o- the Bay. One great blessing for Gisborne is that it is being taken up in cteparatiyelv sural-' blocks. -_4g “Nothing advances Hie nregrests and prosperity of a town so much as a thriving population of small settlers. The frozen meat industry seems destined to create thi-- mu*-h----dessired population for New Zealand, and give the coup de grace to the squatting monopolist. The squatter lias always met the nun ks upon his monopoly and justified his m-, ovation by the assertion that sheepfarming on a small scale, unless close to a market. would not pay. The market is ■new at the small man’s doer. “One of our excuses Urn seizing fie land of the Native's is that in their hands it is not sufficiently ■•iedncfrive. Why draw the line nr the Maoris? Freezing works -have broughtmillennium /levs to t* e s , ’ , vo farmers, both great and small. The cays ot the land monopolist are numbered; the dav of the bursting up of big estates is near. Proceed. O. Nelson Bros, with your good work and establish more freezing works. “What takes the buoyancy out or the Gisbarnite and brings gloom to his brow and sadness to his eye raid causes his lip to croon is the lew chains of concrete wall he red round bis neck and drer-jjgd into the son m the hope of forming a harbor. Notwithstanding the tons of money spent on it, thfs formation of the harbor seems as far off as ever. Harbor or no harbor the interest on borrowed money lias to be paid and this is the gall in the cup of prosperity in front of Gisborne and causes its citizens to feel sad. Still there is a sparkle of hope lor the barber.

I Exciting Hurdie Race at Wairoa. "Wairoa, it see ins. J-ri-tl by January earned For itself the name of ‘lhe Terror’ ik ;i course, owing to the awtully stiff lturdles. .And this, is what hupjH'iu'd in the Hurdles Handicap of that year. The hot favorite was A. G. and Lizard was a. perfect outsider. On -getting, to thclast hurdle both were dead boat, so much iso that- neither eculd’tlear the obstacle. The jockeys were in a like state. Both hoises swerved past the hurdle and stood st : Il. A G having a little pluck left, jnadq an effort to run at if, placed his head svgyinst it ' and raised 1 1 is hind Quarters and came down a terrible crasher, his rider, Jones, an Australian, having three ribs broken. While this wasgoing on, Lizard slipped through the aperture and in a woebegone cantcrwrigglod past the winning pest first. The _ other horses hod drawn up aconsiderable time before. . An Early' .Wharfage Return.' '“.i- ---,: -.lt'.>vas ;r £ppr ted at- the.annual meet— r-. :ing ■of ' the'-Harbdr-i’Bpn rd in .1884 that ' the "wharf acre receipts- for the pre-vious-year had'..totalled :.£SSQ. Pre—- y viousiy N the,Udard had refused an of~ . fer- to lease the wharves for £SCO a» year.