HASTWELL NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LIX, Issue 9211, 2 November 1908, Page 6

HASTWELL NOTES.

(Special to Pail// Tiii>r>i)

Hastwell is suffering from tho want of a daily mail, aggregation of holdings and absentee ownership. Although tho railway station at Mauganiahoe is only three miles distant from the village settlement, the Postal Department cannot see its way to alter the tri-weekly service, aud tho result is that letters aud parcels are carried by the timber waggons that travel to the Maugauiahoo limeworks. The settlors, deprived of their daily newspapers, and all communication witJi the outside world, are soiling out to one another, and those that remain aro using their wives as purchasing agents so as to get round the limitation provisions of the laud laws. One large settler who was a heavy contributor to the creamery has sold out to an absentee, and thero is a danger that the creamery will have to close down. A petition is going to bo promoted to secure a daily service, and it is hoped that the graduated laud tax and a much needed awakening of the land administrators iv Wellington to tho uudesirability of allowing both mau and wifo to cover themselves with too much soil will stop tho progress of laud monopoly.