GORE AND THE FARMERS.

Mataura Ensign, Issue 1599, 3 February 1906, Page 2

GORE AND THE FARMERS.

AN INTKRKSTIMi CKVSIS. I he extent id whieh (tore is Mipjjui lt d i y the fnnninu eoinnmnity is -mi ;•! ways fully i»]ij>c. fi;il.-il. A n j >r.'-.-tit;i tive of this pu| ■■!' today visit, -i i of the local liv.rv Muni's as • U nother yards in tin- \ icitiit\ ol' j_ i;iin stores, etc., wlieiv horses anil nip-an nceoinniodutt d without chaise. ;>i.< 1 discovered no fruvl" than Ixl farm ■?>' vehicles of all sorts having eonv-'ved country people into (lore for tinweekly marketill lt- There was a liil'ti-r oiler of opinion aniony two of the stable-keepers as to tin* average niimher of persons each vehicle would ha\e hroueht in, one reckoning three for every two traps and the other live for every two. Tailing' the Imppy mean. I ami putthe iiiiiiiliit of pas-| s liters us two per vehicle, it works out at 'MS persons. Ju addition to this, saddle horses in u proportion of al'ont one to every three vehirles must he taken into account, giving an additional and also bievoU'S, wliieh m-iy safely ho sot down at -00 a graud total of over 700 country folk, nearly all intent upon business of som<kind. No eoynisanee is taken. of nuirsr, in I eonnection with these l'n,nircs, of tinlartre number mining into (imv h\ train from the Waipahi end. from the Maiinea Plains. ami from tin- S<nit!». These, at tin* most modest estimate, would to eousiderahlv o\'ev aim ther :«M». The population of (lore is under U'lM ami its ability to ; 1111 n< I o\»-r lnu;j outsiders to its market ph-ri-s week b\ week is an achievement to be proud «>i.