COUNTRY NEWS
PORT AWANUI. (from our correspondent.) All holders of telephones have received notice that ‘hey hare had their telephone connections raised 10s per annum, and are requried to pay up 8s 3d for this year. Now we have paid our subscription up to 31st March, for which we hold Government receipts. Is it fair to want ail additional 8s 3d or ho cut off? What woidd we say of a business man who did such a tiling? He would he called a swindler, hut as it is the Government wo know they are honorable men. Anyway we aro not going to pay unless forced. I am sorry to say one of our best settlers, Mr. A. M. Manning, has sold out, and is taking his family to Queensland to take up land where there is no fear of the freehold being upset. We have had a very stormy month, and lambs are suffering. The land is saturated and cold, hut we are now promised by appearances a spell of fine weather. Buslifellors are beginning to get tlieir contracts finished, and only hope For good burns to burn a lot of this country into good grass. Roads are simply seas of mud; worse than I have seen them for the last 15 years.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2165, 22 August 1907, Page 1
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