THE CHARACTERISTIC OF FEILDING.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 79, 30 September 1893, Page 2

THE CHARACTERISTIC OF FEILDING.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. Sir,— The plaint which " Reform " has given expression to in your columns is certainly a most important matter, and one wbich the leading residents of this rising township would do well to ponder over. At tbe Bame time a stranger coming into tbe town could scarcely expect to be invited to the private circles of residents unless be brought some credentials and took tbe trouble to present them. I may state tbat numerous societies of various kinds have been organised by prominent residents during the last few years, and singularly enough they have all died at conception or very soon after. The Feilding people, generally, are not in favour of carrying out the principle of co-operation for the social and intellectual advancement of tbe rising generation and the present-day young men. The real want, I believe, is a leader, who could fuse tbo energies of those people wbich hitherto have been futile, owing to tbe many sections in which they have been split up. " United we stand, divided we fall." The field in this direction is " white unto harvest," but the laborers lack a bond of sympathy with the common object wbich is necessary to any scheme adopted for the supply of this long-felt want, i.e., the need of some common place for intellectual and social recreation. I am, etc , J.B.