RUAKITURI VALLEY.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2117, 27 June 1907, Page 3

RUAKITURI VALLEY.

nu " ” i Editorially the Wairoa Guardian remarks:—The settlement of the Raukituri valley is a great area of country, m in this quarter that, .the will develop most ra l )K |l y „ J° r t w° next year or two. About ■ three thousand acres of bush has keen .felled there by small, settleis, tuothirds of which is on Government land. The whole of it can only he approached by that neglected track, the Ruakituri valley road. .Tile settlers have to pack all their goods along this track, as well as building material. Several buildings aro in course of erection. Somewhere near, a thousand pockets of wool have to bo packod down this road. This quantity will soon be doubled. Now this road taps 16,000 acres of land that is at present being surveyed by the Government. There are forty to fifty thousand acres of good bush land further up the river, waiting to be broken in, and all the produce from this countrv when it is settled must go through Wairoa. In attending to. tho needs of the Ruakituri settlers wo require to do more than look at matters from their present aspect. This vast district will bo constantly developing, and a good road would accelerate settlement. The settlers, besides, are self-reliant. The mak- , ing of the Ruakituri valley road into a dray road is tho nearest, cheapest, and host way of getting access to this country.

THE SALVATION ARMY. ••Facts aro cliiels that viniin ding.” The uununl roport of tlio Salvation Army resuio operations in Australia and Now Zealand for 1907 Ims been issued, and from it wo cull the following facts:— Prison Gate Work—No. of homes 8, men admitted 1043, sent to situations 251, sent to friends 75, sent to other homes 27, loft, seeking work 694, remaining, at. end of December 142, visits to gaol gates by officers 80S, visits to police courts 725. Boys’ Work—No. of homes 8, No. in homes at beginning of year 296, admitted from all Sources 164, sent to situations, or restored to friends 19', remaining at oiul of voar 261. Rescue Work—No. of homes 16, accommodation 352, inmates at beginning of year 281, admitted during year 620, from court and gaol 75, sent. *o friends 2.14, sont to situations 277, sent t'o other homes 37, deaths 3, unsatisfactory 77, in homo at end of year 293.

Work Among Girls—No. of homes 7, accommodation 270, in homo at beginning of year 240, admitted dur:ng year 126’, sont to situations or friends 136, remaining at- end of year 230.

Maternity Homes—Njo. of homes 11, at beginning of year 174. admitted during year 571, sent to friends 295 sent to, situations 244, sent to other homes 20, deaths 0, unsatisfactory 1, in home at end of year 176.

Five hunderd and ten children were born in our homes during tlio year.