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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1835, 16 August 1906, Page 3

Tha rains last week caused another big fall of it me on the Waihi section of railway, but a large stuff cf men cleared tho dt-bris next morning, ibo inward train from Paeroa being delayed about an horn.

Spring is at hand. The willows aro beginning to bud and tho grass is showing good signs of growth—in fact vegotation is general. With docent weather farmers should have a good run this season, as the lambs will have plenty of young grass to htdp them through their oavly stages.— Coastal correspondent. In an article criticising the Native Land Department, tho Wanganui Herald states : “ As to tho chaos and confusion, proof of this has not been wanting in Wanganui recontly, for Judge Jones and bis staff have been kept working night and day in order to put in a shlp'shapo condition matters that should never have been allowed to get into disorder. Only the other day a well-known local resident called on us complaining bitterly of

tho forms and ceremonies he had to go through in order to securo a lease of native land, which ho was desirous c-f at once briuging into cultivation. First of all he had to secure the signatures of 100 individual owners of the block, a huge task in itself, thon he had to I deposit IffiOO for survey fees, and in every wav ho was hampered and inconvenienced, and put to so much preliminary expense and trouble that ho avers he would never in his wildest imagination liavo thought of taking up the section if ho had known tho difficulties and delays that would have impeded his every step.

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