MATAPARA.

Waipa Post, Volume V, Issue 225, 1 July 1913, Page 3

MATAPARA.

(Own Correspondent.)

We are very pleased to note the visit of Mr J. A. Young, M.P., for this district, who was at Matapara on Saturday week to meet the settlers of the newlyopened Wharepuhanga extension block. In the course of a very good speech Mr Young pointed out a case in which £3,000 was lent on Hamilton town propeity by the advances to sjltlers' department, which money should have been advanced to settlers to enable them to improve and stock their farms, not to build a row of shops in Hamilton. At the close of a very good meeting a vote of thanks was passed to Mr Young for coming out so far, and it was decided to inviter Mr Massey to visit the settlement with a view to showing him some of our most pressing needs. Great discontent exists on the co-operative road works in the district 'owing to the fact that prices are so low men are anable to earn decent wages, and it is understood that a number of men are at present leaving. It is understood that a petition is being forwarded to the Minister for Roads by the men concerned with a view to having the matter enquired into, as it is thought that the Minister never intended to reduce wages clown to 6s per day, which some gangs are barely making. The weather has been very fine for the last week, and work has gone on apace, over 1,000 acres of be felled in the settlenjanftliis season.