WAITARA.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 16724, 27 April 1920, Page 6

WAITARA.

DEATH OF MR. T. ELLIOT. FROM OCR OWN COR KESPONURNT. April 26.—Mr. T. Elliot cucu in; the New' Plymouth Hospital yesterday after a few weeks’ illness. He had undergone tw'o operations, and it was hoped that ho would have had strength to sun'ivo and recover from them, but his advanced age probably told against his recovery, and after considerable fluctuation in Ms condition ho unfortunately passed away. He wars horn in New Plymouth 73 years ago, tho second of live Brothers. His father Mr. P. Elliot, was from Cornwall, and came to New' Zealand in the Amelia Thompson. Ho has spent tho whole of his long life in this part of Taranaki, and wms one of the first settlers in Waitara. The greater part of his active life was spent in tlie-' Aw'akino and Mokau, being, with his brother John, the first pioneers of that district. Of Into years he has not taken any active interest in public affairs, hut previously ho wms a member of tho Town Board, had a seat on the Clifton County Council, and w y as tho representative for the latter body on the Hospital Board. Ho went through the Maori w'ars :iu the firing line. He was a man of find physique, of strict integrity, and hard-headed conimonsenso. Ho leaves a widow' and two children, Mr. W. M. Elliot and Mrs. W. Nosw'orthy.

The annual meeting of the North Taranaki Patriotic League was held on Saturday at which the officers and committee were re-elected, and Mr. F. Atkinson was re-elected the league’s representative on the War Relief Association. Afterwards the meeting sat as an emergency committee and recommended a number of apnlications under tho permanently disabled sob diors’ assistance scheme. Would that tho “Bonafide Cow Jockey” wore correct in his views of the increased land values. lam afraid that it does not always, often happen that tho laud is improved by the quick changes that are taking place not alone in Lepperton. Ho must know of farms that have changed hands more than once during a year. In too many cases it will be found that the temporary owner has got everything ho possibly could out of the soil, as well as an increased price, and has put nothing into it by way of fertiliser. Your Lepperton correspondent is not far wrong in his remarks. There are, 1 know, farms that have changed hands that have been vastly improved, and evidently “'Pro Bono Cow Jockey” has happily pitched’his tent in their near I have a farm in my mind that has just been sold for nearly twice what it was bought for a year ago. but tho farm has been properly worked and has been made to produce double what it had done before, and the rise is justified. But it is to be feared that this is exceptional.