MOUMAHAKI REDIVIVUS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 718, 18 January 1910, Page 8

MOUMAHAKI REDIVIVUS.

WHAT DOES IT MEAN? (To the Editob.s Sit,t-Tous will •be • amused r to: learn 'of retrenchment; .Wufßßgjßndlihctthastency/in'jconhectioh . witii - tho Ifo'uiuahaki: Experiment Farm. e-iThVjemphatib; ahd;npwi notorious :stdt'e : : i ment < madt) . ; in-the., house r l)y tho . Hon/ tTAiMackehiiiai that'; eleven: experiments jaad l all, and which; appears to - have - beeii ji tho - main:-reason' for-Mr. ;pillanders;rM!j;ningHrbin r icverseer,-, lias'noft- received-.a rude shock.. S£jfc?;fbrthightif iifte'rj : that ;positive,estate-"; .ihent .was. .made,; three .of ; tho dismissed men-were :taken . on- agajn, : then .when Mr.: Gillanders had finally left, four raoro Jiands'WoroKiiuetly.engoged, and now if' you : please,- eight .or mno Maoris aro inardvat'.work' : endeavouring', to :patoli up the* damage caused- by. the ten men having'beenl: -boastfully-,■•.dispensed . ; .inth.a' luont li.lKfore—the -jnosfc period-, of: the farm's work ;";. 'abput:i ! 26 ('(mostly / raw -recruitsj,';'as icom-', with: tho, 20 seasoned- inon ■ and boys who formed the staff when the; Minister's bluff - ..cry of . retrenchriient; ..was; /"called less than;two-months ago. • - ' !•.-' h Inv the meantime, Gillander's- ex.tcn3ivo ■ root and ; other experiments have lad; to bo so. neglected;' that their value' asi experiinenls;';is-^'now/'practically..^nil,. of course,':thatvis.:: not . likely, to jfrohble'Vai-Government; :whose appears to bo to make a big noise about retrenchment, fool the public into vbehev-iniSthat^-.they.; are• savings money /without interfering •: with, .'efficiency,V -■ landthen Quietly r;and: surreptitiously ;spend /,:.more; .tnoney . than: ever.—l am, etc., '.. iv v, 5 COW SPANKEK. !|:..Waitotara; .'January:.ls,';.l9lo. j lMbs7ar6. reported- ! to be. reaching ./the. great numbers. . V. ; , 5;;- '/ ';■