DAILY NOTES FROM WANGANUI.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 684, 8 December 1909, Page 11

DAILY NOTES FROM WANGANUI.

;V BROKEN FAITHS WITH SETTLERS,'/ .;': .■"; ;;,':A' : TOHIJNGA.AT : .'WOEK,;: <:};■:■■'- . ■ ■ IBy .Tcleeraph-aDeolat OortoaoondßDtJ ' ";' l l ■'■' '■'■■■' ■-';■:"■ ■' ; Wanganui,; December 7.■''■' . The Wanganui ' Co-operative Building ■ So* ciety's annual report states that the profit for the.year is .£569. Of .£31,350 granted ifl loans since the inception;of the Society, .£9333 has been repaid, and thejpaymehts' in arrear are \ almost a negligible..figure;;:' ■ i . : '- The local schools .close .for the,' Christmas holidays next week. Lady Plunket will present the prizes at the Girl/ College, and Bishop at the Boys' College. ; . ~~ a "* . The■■ Christmas• season this year promises to be, rather quiot for business people, though j£eroj.is a- hopeful feeling' that the worst of the bad-times are well 1 over. . Word from the newly-settled TeTuhi Block states th.it a good wool yield has been experienced, ' but settlers are greatly hampered by. tne..want' of roads. The woof has to be packed to town 'in sacks, over a, track whichi to quote one settler's Words, "would turn your hair grey to look at." Settlers B tate that, ™ea they first took up the land, the Government distinctly promised that a proportion of the purchase-money would be expended in'making roads. -The promise appears to be forgotten.' / .' - ... .-. . .Complaint is made that a Maori tohunga and J" 3 ,™,.said to belong to the Wairarapa, are at their; trade :in this district, extorting largo Sums of money from Natives, and -"pre--venting them from working by assuring them that thoy aro too-'-ill; to doso. Thejpair "ai- ! tempted to land at Ranann, on tho 'Wanganui ttiver, bat the Maori Council there would not permit so. It is stated that: the Native Health Department knows of the .mattor, but, for some reason, has not taken action.; ■'. ~ ':,.". ; Lady , Plunket will present the certificates to the successful members of the St. John Ambulance Association ; next Thursday. In doing so,:;sho will, -speak-'.'in: support of the movement to obtain the services of a Plunket nurse for Wanganui, '