Here and There

Horowhenua Chronicle, 28 October 1913, Page 3

Here and There

4 (13y "The Office Liar.") The recently appointed office liar takes up his burden: Yesterday being Sunday, and not having yet located a church, or discovered the rear entrance of one of the hotels, 1 was compelled to' spend the day in a manner which jars upon my religious feelings. Alter the mist had ceased, and the breeze brought the smell of the brine, I wandered along the roads and across the fields towards the sea. But I did not reach it; I floundered in a maze of sandhills, sand drifts, and sandy gullies. 1 reckon that as far as Maoriland is concerned, this part takes the whole' cabbage patch in the way of sand. In one place 1 noticed a line of what appeared to be very short blocks on the sand at regular intervals. Investigation showed them to be the top of an almost-buried fence. Further on I found a man (he did not seem to know it was Sunday) stapling wires to posts, which he assured me were telegraph poles. \s the sand crept upwards he .kepi lifting the wires, and he was now on the last lap. A little later I came across a wild-looking individual burying a huge loir in the sand. It had a μ-reat length of twisted wire cable attached to ii. For vears his fences, no

matter how high, hnve been continually buried by the drifting sand, and Ins idea is to anchor a

line of balloons with mooring cables several hundred feet long , . To the cables he will fasten the fencing wires, lifting them when necessary. He calculates that if lie can get the balloons at a reasonable figure he will beat the sand,-THE O.L.