TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume I, Issue 6, 9 February 1867, Page 2

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Alpha. —The return of expenditure in the Wairarapa is not fairly stated. From a statement before us we find that the money spent on the Gorges and the Upper Hutt is included in the Wairarapa expenditure. The cost of the Ngahuranga might with as much as justice be included in the expenditure on the Wanganui district.

G.R.—lt is quite true we asked Mr. Masters for information with reference to the Moroa Block, but we did not ask him for a string of extracts from old works to show that peasant proprietors in Europe were in a better position than a pauper peasantry. No one questioned the advantage which the owner of a small farm possessed over the tenant or laborer on a large one ; but if Mr. Masters really thought it would be better to farm five acres than five hundred why did he propose in the Council that in future the sections in -small farm settlements should be increased from 40 to 100 acres? We ask the question, but we do not require an answer. To the man of small means the occupation of 40 acres can be rendered more beneficial to him and the Province than if he occupied 100 acres. The original suggester of small torn settlements in the Wairarapa was the present Mr, Justice Chapman who in a lecture

in the Wellington Mechanics’ Institute in ! 1851 on “ Peasant Proprietors" favored his audience with similar extracts to those given by Mr. Masters 16 years later, W. J.—There appears to be no doubt that what has been called the Moroa Block, but which we should call the new Moroa blockAwouldbe quickly bought up by bona fide occupicflSWwe Government would only open a road to it. Bnquiree—The Pakuratahi Bridge and its approaches cost the public £1312. No less than £642 was thrown away in constructing a bridge overe the Tauheru, which was no sooner erected than washed away. The Wairarapa is debitted for both undertakings! Stella,.—To raise your spirits have recourse to fresh air, excercise, and cheerful company. Avoid quack medicines, eschew sensation novels, and shun ardent spirits as you would a pestilence. B.—Mr. C. R. Carter first arrived in Wellington in the ship Eden, Dec. 1830. He has been absent from the Colony about three years.