TOO MUCH SPECULATION.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1788, 28 June 1913, Page 14

TOO MUCH SPECULATION.

FARMERS HERE TO-DAY AND GONI TO-MORROIV. Mr. W. J. Moore, of Makuri, think speculation is the ciirso of the country He ako makes some emphatic remarks 01 the state of tho postal service in thi. district:— • 1. (Schools.) We don't want the bliin to lead the blind. 2.- Returns 'front sale of products satis factory. If they grow good stuff they go good money. .3. Yes. ] am satisfied with the xoac and railway services. i. No. The post office service is sim ply disgusting. I am writing on Tues day morning and we will not get Satur day's Dominion until 4 p.m. to-day. Uu der our old time-tablo The Dominio? reached, Makuri at 5.30 p.m. tho snmi day as.it left Wellington. But the peopli •in Pongaroa want a delayed passenger ser vico instead of a quick delivery of let ters, and at a cost of .£'s3o, against .£37; the P.O. are granting their request I have written so often on this head both to your paper and to others—th< position must be well known. Instead of the .Makuri ooaoh leaving Pahiatu: at 2.'30—i.e., 'giving I'ahiatua P.O. tiim to sort Wellington mails both by Mama wntu and Wairarapa and Napier letters and reaching Makuri at s.3o—it is 1 p.m next day before we get our letter. Bu; we liape at the end of the year that Po ngaroa passengers and mails will go vis Eketahuna. Masterton is working wit! Eketahuna and Makuri as well. If thi: takes place we will, I trust, get a ser i vice which will meet with our wishes. 5. (Agricultural Shows.), If they ari [ not too grand they can learn something ,6. I havo always found the Agricul [ iural Department useful and beneficial. J 7. Country women would astonish youi staff with their knowledge and skill ir buying. ' 8. There are no renters of farms here : 9. The supply of farm labour is noi I satisfactory. Good pay for good men I which are impossible to find. 10. Farm hands are well treated an £ i have good quarters. I 11. Put people on the land, with rea I sonable areas by which they can make ; living; and make-transfer more cxpen sive. There is too much shifting abouttoo much speculation; no sentiment, 7i< pride in their stock and home 3. Nearlj oil settlers have their price—this ssemi a pity. Whore I come from (the Isle ol i Man) old families hold land for 20 gen orations, passed down from father to son We would be better and happier hero i; we were educated up to that spirit. W< should strivo to educato the young ant implant a love of. Empire, of country, an< of home.