CHEVIOT SETTLERS' ASSOCIATION.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 12021, 21 March 1903, Page 4

CHEVIOT SETTLERS' ASSOCIATION.

SPEECH BY THE HON. HALL-JONES. Per Press Association. CHRIST(JiiIRCH, March 20. The annual show oi the Cheviot Settleis' Association was held to-day, and '.ins verv successful. The Ho:.. Haft-Jones was picsent. He was eiitertainad bv the Association on his arrival. In responding to the to.i.si. of his health, he promise.! that there should be no cessation of railway works, and that the £2.0 incit now employed would be increased to £SO after the ha: vest. He hoped to have the !ir.s opened to Cheviot shortly after the end of May nest year, ar.d the railway would then be quickly pushed on to McKeuzie. With reference to future surpluses, he thought that something shur.ld be done to assist widows and child:ea left in poor circumstances. He had nude a iisi of husbands who had died d-ar:::g the past rive years, and allowing for a yift ot £IOO to" each widow i-.nd £5 to each child under fourteen years t.f age, he '.va:; airreeab-y surprised to find that v.-r.id■! meet such an expct.diture. Ke deprecated adverse eriti-ct-iu of the (et.'..;d Railway and the th.it_boiii_llr.es »t:t ie._i::ied to give needed ■'> had set:'-.-::;-...: he -id t!i it th--te weie mtmer.-- ;-.r-..is in the y,, rr h UUrA. which the r. ■■ ....; :i .;... ; ; C :: it ijo i:av- :->i •.-••■•-e! irnrr.c.;: rely and ;!:-..-:. op-:.- -or . as e.i:iy as