A LAMENT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 80, 24 May 1911, Page 5

A LAMENT.

OVER LOST POPULATION. People are apparently leaving the Tir.ui district, and tue Tinui correspondent of the “Wairarapa Ago” thus unburdens himself; — The discussion which is going on over the Castlepnint County Council clerkship is getting interesting, and people are asking, “What’s wrong with Tinui P” Everybody knows the aggregation that is going on in land, and that there are not as many ratepayers here as there were a few years ago. The question now before the people is, is there going to bo aggregation in billets? If so, why not appoint tiio constable to be postmaster and parson? Then there would lie two empty houses, two loss subscribers to the “Wairarapa Ago,” two less customers at the stores. Well, why not shut the township up altogether and turn it into a sheen paddock? If ever a place wants “Home Rule,” Tinui does. Are the present generation going to sec-closer settlement, or arc they going (which they are) to drift backwards? During the last few years, seven settlers have sold out to their neighbours and left the district, and as most of these settlers had families, tlie loss to the school, churches, and business people is considerable. Here wo are, a few people on a lot of land, and still losing population. Vet wo are good people. There is no “sheep faking,” neither is (here “sheep-taking” here, and the ladies do not wear “harem skirts.” Yet wo arc dying out!