ORMONDVILLE

Waipawa Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 783, 30 May 1885, Page 2

ORMONDVILLE

[from oub own correspondent.] There is very little news (of a nature calculated to interest your readers) to be gleaned in this neighbourhood this week ; or if there 13 such news, I have been unable to collect it. Now, Ido not wish it to be understood that the inhabitants of this highly favored locality are less anxious or more contented than they were formerly, but merely that your faithful scribe has been unfortunate enough to have boen met (while instituting inquiries) by tales of want in every direction ; nothing more. Makatoku wants to have two members on the Road Boards, ami accordingly held a public meeting at which to choose which two gentlemen should be elected when the late election is upset. Makatoku certainly should be represented, but I am inclined to think that two out of five is rather more than they can expect. Besides, one of the lately elected members of the Board is a Makatoku man. I am rather inclined to think that if the}* endeavour to run two candidates from Makatoku, they will fail. The most sensible way of doing, in my opinion, would be to have the district divided into wards, and increase the number of members in the Road Board ; this would give each w ard the amount of representation that it would he er titled to. OrmoDdville wants a registrar of births, deaths, und marriages. It is rather too much for a father, be be ever so proud and happy, 10 trudge out from Ormondville to Norsewood to register the birth of an infant, and then to trudge back again ; if he had the same distance to go along the line of railwjiy, it would not be so bad, for he could ride cheaply there and back, but to get to Norsewood he would probably have to walk either out or in, perhaps both ways. Wo all want to see a doctor settled in the district, and although several of our leading settlers have exerted themselves in that direction, there seems little likelihood of their efforts bearing the desired fruit. Our fellow settlers at Norsewood want more land, and they are moving to form an Association for the purpose of taking up a block of land. Any person visiting that place and seeing the amount of improvements effected by the settlers of Norsewood will agree with me when I say that they are the right class of men to settle bush land. It is not many years ago since their holdings were all dense bush, but now there is little, if any bush standing in tho settlement, and while doing the improvements, such as fencing, building homesteads, out buildings, clearing, &c., they have had to live hard as well as work hard, as they could spare but little time in which to earn a living, and had therefore to eke out, by frugality, the little that they could earn at such times as they could get away from their home labour. By - the - bye, while writing of the Scandinavian settlers, I am reminded of a very objectionable way in which Englishmen curtail their national title “ Scandinavian ” into “ Scandy.” If we choose to call them by that name we should give it in full, as it seems very much like a reproach when uttered in the abbreviated form ; and, at any rate, is a freedom which we would not like others to use with the name of Englishmen. The English nation owes to much too Scandinavia for us to use any objectionable name wherewith to designate her sons.