WAIRERE NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LVII, Issue 8911, 11 November 1907, Page 3

WAIRERE NOTES.

{Special to Daily Times.)

The member for Ohristclmrch North has asked in the House, "That arepresen|j^e ; selection from the almost in3S(Jrable lovely views of Christchurch be at once obtained and forwarded to the High Commissioner, so that visitors to his office may have au opportunity of realising the beauty and importance of the Exhibition City of New Zealand."' And wherefore this, any more than any other town or city of New Zealand? Can we afford any such needless waste of money whilst the back country is starring for want of decent roads to bring their produce to market? Was there not sufficient of both Government and public money spent m Christohurch during the Exhibition months to condemn such a demand? Certainly the country had behaved vory liberally, and too much so, and they .should be content to rest a while before /'•making fresh demands upou the public funds. It is this incessant dipping into the public chest for endless farcical aud useless reasons that absorbs so much of the money that could be much more profitably expended in the; outlviug country more proPetive aud habitable thau it is at present. Tho Government should not encourage tlrs form of petty .larceny. Our pictorial papers, which go Home in vast uumbers. and aro very creditable productions, sufficiently reproduce the views and scenery of this country, without any. uureproductive efforts in that direction. It is well to bo just before you are generous.

The drought is upon us, aud tanks are getting low, So nintteriugs of discontent are .inst a little high; Aud so it is ever, and always will be so, When rain has ceased to fall, ami it looms not in the sky. But water conservation, by a damdam—dam Is better than that little word too often used by man, Who should suppress this senseless irritation, Trusting more to future schemes of widespread irrigation. This may seem to some like mere playful rhyme, Wherein the writer hail wasted his J^^hne; Mothers, more wise, who wish to be warned, Will take this advice aud so be forearmed. The humble poet who shines out bore Hopes his critics won't be too severe; He has but pointed a moral, for lack of news, In a jingle of words, his readers to amuse. Plum, pear and strawberry bloom have been attacked by some unknown blight, and the hopes of an abundant crop cherished by the industrious gardener are also blighted. Samples have been forwarded to the Government Biologist for investigation.