The Feilding Star. SATURDAY, JAN. 3, 1891. 1891

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 83, 3 January 1891, Page 2

The Feilding Star. SATURDAY, JAN. 3, 1891. 1891

We hope that at the end of the year now commenced we will be able to took back upou it with the same pleas ure that we can recall the memories of the year 1890. That settlement in the new districts will progress during j tho current year with the same steadi- ! nes9, we have the fullest confidence, because intending settlers, of the best class, are continually ou the lookout for laud to occupy either as freeholders or as tenants of the Government under the Perpetual Lease system. But, to assist in this indicated progress it will be necessary for the settlers who are already firmly established to do a part by making communication easy, for people living far back, with the centres of commerce, and to that end the attention of our local bodies must be directed towards the completion of public works where such may ba necessary. The three principal works of that kind wanted mostly are bridges over the Oroua river at Apiti and AoraDgi, and protection works to the Kiwitea stream where it crosses the Kimbolton road. These works have long been recognised as of paramount importance to the sheep and cattle farmers who are largely interested in having easy ! and safe roads on which to drive their stock to market, as well as to the business people in the town, in whose care it is to distribute their goods amoug their customers in the country. When the late Mayor, Mr Lethbridge, retired from office, in his vahdictory address he pointed out that the time had now come when the Borough of Feilding should be provided with suitable Municipal offices. In support of his contention he showed that the burgesses were already paying, as rent for one part of the premises now occupied, a sum sufficient to cover the interest for all the money necessary to be expended in the erection of a suitable building, As the Borough goes on increasing it cannot be expected that the Council will be allowed to occupy the present premises for ail time, because it is highly probable the owners may require them for their own use, a contingency which is not a very remote one. We trust that the Borough Council, the Manchester and Kiwitea Road Boards, will work cordially together in aiding settlement, and thus assure the continued prosperity of this splendid country, which is undoubtedly the most successful farming district iv the colony, because whatever is done by these bodies to assist it will be returned a thousand -fold.