Local Wants

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 86, 10 January 1891, Page 2

Local Wants

The increase of business in TVilding has now made it absolutely necessary that there should be a daily mail

delivery. Sometime ago we urged this upon the authorities, but from alleged economy the department did riot favorablyconsider the suggestion. No doubt tha money was needed to be spent in other plaeea where the [K'oole were Vu.orex'laturiri.ius i" asserting' their, wants or rights. We are long suffe'ring-and slow to wrath, and submissive to a degree that would be contemptible if we did not know that this apparent calmness under injustice is the result of philosophic indifference to small matters, and not: to timidity. But life'is made up of little things, and surely the 'contentment of. the public mind', wlrich was made nsanifest when in response- to a petition from the Mayor, Councillor and burgesses, . the. Government; affixed ,a, four and sixpenny lamp to the local Kailway Station, must now have worn away. If we ask for rnudrwe may. get a little. We want a> new Post Office, we want a resident Clerk ; of the Court, and we want a letter carrier. If we hold public meetings and raise much tribulation we may riot get the new Post Office, or the Clerk, but surely we will get the letter carrier. . v

Now that the dry season is close upon usj we would strongly urge the officers and men of the local Fire Brigade, to get their engine out and have some good wet.practice. There is no foretelling the rhement when the need for their services may arise, and therefore the present is .the time for them to make themselves competent by continued exercise to meet any contingency in the way of fires. Our unpreparedness in thif respect is notorioiis, and at the same time is not over creditable to the young men resident in the Borough, wlio have hitherto taken so little interest in an institution of which it should be an honor and privilege t6:be a member. ;k-: