OAKURA.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LX, Issue 143764, 12 April 1912, Page 4

OAKURA.

(From Oar Own Correspondent.) April 11.—Things are not running as smoothly hero as we would like just now. Our storekeeper, Mr. F. Aroa, has given up business, his lease having expired, ana the post office and telephone are the trouble. The settlers ’iave been in the habit of getting their nail in the evening when going to or t 'rom work or after they had done i the day’s'work. They then went'to the store and found it very handy, but now all is shut up after five o’clock and not opened until nino or thereabout, and we all find it inconvenient. There is talk of the office being moved. Some say that Mr. T. Smart is going to build a post office and store, others say they want to get the office moved back to the blacksmith’s house, where it was before Mr. Aroa started storekeeping. It was removed to the store when the Corkill family left Oakura. They were very obliging, and would give letters or anything to the settlers at any time. Of course they were not compelled to do so, but our district would feel it very much at first to be deprived of the privilege of getting our mail on Saturday nights when going home from town, and we want it where we will be best served, but we don’t want it closed. As our district is not large enough to have a post office by. itself put up by the department, the store or the blacksmith’s is the best place for it. I hear the people where it is do not want it; therefore it must be removed. I don’t know if the settlers will have to pay for removing it. If so. we shall do it rather than lose it or having it closed. The crusher has removed to Tapuac, haring finished the Oakura contract. [ think the ratepayers would like to know what it is costing them to have the luxury of this roller on the road.

The mild weather is keeping the milk supply up at the factory and creameries, above what it has been for some years.

I hear Mr. H. Julian lost one of his valuable horses tho other day; it fell over a steep place and was killed. He is very unlucky; not vory long ago he lost another horse.

They <ay i » ew broom sweeps clean. Will onr new Premier put this electric tram on the road or subsidise the South Road so that it can be kept in order? It is not the traffic does all the damage ; it is the system they have of doing things.