THE LAND AND THE PEOPLE.

Timaru Herald, Volume LII, Issue 5155, 30 May 1891, Page 4

THE LAND AND THE PEOPLE.

The Napier Evening News writes :— The s Patangata County Council had gathered ono I day for tlie despatch of business, and one of I questions to be decided was that of fixing up 1 a licensing district, the Kaikora Town Board < having taken away the only populous portion < of the licensing district as it originally stood. 1 After considerable trouble had been taken it I was thought the district would have to be i tacked on to Porangahau. One or two mom- I bers romarked that surely out of all the . immense stretch of country ia the t'ero i acd other districts along tho coast, all sufficient number of ratepayers could be found to warrant the forming of a district. " Well," said the Clerk, going up to the map hanging on tho wall, " here you have m this little portion," indicating Kaikora and surroundings, '" so many hundred ratepayers, while here (sweeping his handover an area on the map of hundreds of miles of grand councry) you have three or four!" If we were to preach from now until the end of thh year of grace, could we put the matter ia a more telling form ? A few little homesteads clustered together on the skirts of large holdings : all ratepayers, all making a living ; and all around and about them mile upon mile of plain, valley and bill, magnificent land fit to grow anything, and but tho merest handful of people ! dome people think this is a thing to be proud of ; we thing differently.