COUNTRY NEWS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 357, 3 May 1911, Page 5

COUNTRY NEWS.

Tangitu. Own Correspondent. Wet weather has again set in, and has done considerable 'damage to our eight miles of dray road, putting an end to all wheel uaiiic for the present. New settlers are still arriving with their wives and families. Mr I'. Tutlihmi arrived here a few days ago, and caused quiie a .sensation, having had to convey his children on a pack horse, they lining accommodated in a box on either side of the steed. This incident reminds me of seme remarks I read in a recent issue of your paper, where a certain Land Hoard reckoned that, the Improved Farm Settlers were spoon-fed. I might inform that august body that any man who takes his wife and family into the back- : blocks of this part of the country is entitled to the full consideration that j the present Government has seen fit to allow them. Such remarks are uni called for, and only tend to dishearten i those who are endeavouring to open ! up a little of the waste bush lands of ! this country. In my opinion, the Land Boards are more spoon fed than the poor struggling back-block settler, who are forced to reside on their sections with neither road nor track in some cases, to enable them to get their wives and children to their new "home" with safety. The young grass is making wonderful progress since the rain, and settlers will soon have to face the question of what they are going to do with the milk. It is nearly time someone made a move in this matter. Last season there were over 2000 acres of bush felled here, and next spring there will be so much grass as to be quite sufficient to start a cooperative butter factory. There is so far no of the proposed telephone connection, which looks very much as though we are going to be shut off from the outside world for another winter. The usual policy —'Taihoa." The old cattle yards from Te Kuiti have been removed to Waimiha, but the erection of them has not so far been commenced. It is to be hoped they will not be also hung up, for they are urgently required. It is surely time some person was put in charge of the goods shed at Waimiha. Settlers' stores arriving from Auckland are left uncovered, and exposed to the weather, with the result that flour, sugar, and other perishable goods become spoilt. We have applied for a porter to be put in charge, but so far nothing has been done by the Department.