DISTRICT NEWS.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume II, Issue 134, 11 April 1894, Page 3

DISTRICT NEWS.

(From our own Correspondents. > Makuri. \NV are now having a mixture of wralht r—fine and we:, and to-day (Monday t hat been cold enough for winter. A meeting of the Sports Committee is to be held on Saturday next to dis cues the Seor* tary's report of the ev« ut of St Patrick's Pay. The much-needed tn* tailing of the gap leading |*st the Makeri Recreation Ground is being start.d by the < »ov» rmn* nt. and s»tllers are thankful. It is proposed to erect a public hall on a township sit«* whore entertainment h can be held, and a part of it will be dedicated for a library. It takes age* to g. t a d« finite reply from the Government, so it is sugg* sl<*d that a f»ectint> b» purchased. The report of the la,t Land Board meeting is received with great dissatisfaction. Th“ statement of the Commissioner of go further haok into the bush and settle on rougher country they should pay higher prices and allow the Government to get some of the im- * proved value.* is the jest of the season, j Another sage statement, that the evil j exists in settlers trying to keep sheep i on hilly ground in small areas is (to ! drop the classical and adopt th.* ' v* macular) a cough-drop. What is hilly ground fit for hut sheep? And as . for small an as, there is no settle r hen who has yet fully cleared his section, and how can small areas apply ? Again, th.* holdings around Makuri are larger in average than anv other part of Pahia:ua. The late Mr Bal- j • a harsh landlord,' and here we have i a Land Board whose head revels in . ignorance of a part of the country lie ! has inertly ridden by stating that his . personal opinion is (of ground he has i never seen) 44 not too highly priced.” I H»* then goes on to say that the same land would bo eagerly competed for if j iv-offered. He forgets that there are some 7.000 to 9,000 acres of this eagerly-com peted - for land still unsold Crown lands. It is true it has liut been m tb> market for sale for 3 to I years ; but this small delay is dispatch : in that “ dead letter office " —the lands department. We need a change sadly.