WOODVILLE.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3935, 29 February 1884, Page 3

WOODVILLE.

[from our own correspondent.! February 25, 18~84. A public meeting of settlers was held hist evening at Pahiatua (Violeteville), when several resolutions of importance were brought forward and carried. In some respects tho feeling was decidedly similar to that expressed at the indignation meeting lately held at Woodville. • On the subject of railways the following resolution was carried, " That the meeting expresses its thanks to the Government for letting the Kopuaranga section of railway formation, and ventures to hope that an additional section will be shortly let, so that settlers in the Forty-mile Bush may be brought within the reach of the different markets." During the discussion which followed the proposition some remarks were made which showed that the general feeling was not altogether sincere in its expression of gratitude to a paternal Government, but the resolution was nevertheless carried.

The demand for Crown lands was the subject of the next resolution, which was as follows, "That, in consequence of the great demand which is so generally displayed for Crown lands in the Forty-mile Bush, and especially in the Mangatinoko district, this meeting would urge upon the Government the necessity of supplying the demand at as early a date as possible." During the discussion it was shown that a vast amount of would-be settlers were at the present time looking out for land on which to settle; that the Maugatimoko block was the favorite one, and most suitable for settlement, and that the opinions oxpressed at the Woodville meeting were accurate and justifiable. It is hard to say which province is delaying the opening of Crown iands most, but it is quite palpable that both are very slow indeed in meoting the requirements of the people. The question of a school site for the new achool was then brought up, and it was said that two sites, one of two acres, and one of one acre, had been given to the Education Board. But the settlors not being in favor of a resolution which was brought forward, proposing the erection of the school on McCardy's land, an amendment was proposed, and then a second, aud lastly a third amendment was brought forward. Things wero getting mixed, and the business looking decidedly intricate, and the face of the chairman assumed a look of blank dismay as the amendments rattled in in awful succession. One gentleman seconded the original motion and then the second amendment, and the original mover blandly seconded the third amendment, which was in direct opposition to his proposition. At this stage the contending parties mntually agreed that all the propositions had best be withdrawn, which was done, and the matter stands over. It was thus forcibly impressed upon me that the subject of a school-house in Pahiatua is almost as vexed and insoluble a question as that of a something kindred is in Woodvile.