MAPARA.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 368, 10 June 1911, Page 5

MAPARA.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) Settlers are busy bU3hfelling at present and it is expected that a large area will be felled during this season. Preparations are being made for dairying next year. The home separation system will be adopted, and it is hoped that the Pio Pio Dairy Factory Directors will arrange for a cart to take the cream to the factory. It is anticipated that over two hundred cows will be milked in the block next season. It will be a very good start considering the short time that settlers have been on their sections. It is hoped that the following year will more than see the number doubled.

Despite the fact that the Taranaki Land Board have agreed to grant a portion of the scenery reserve for a site for a public school in the block, the Auckland Education Board have done nothing more in the matter. This means that there will be no Mapara school until after the winter. It would be impossible to ge.t material on to the ground now, so therefore settlers will have to wait, whether they like it or not. The whole business seems unjust to the children who are the sufferers. There is no doubt, however, but that the quarrelling which had previously been going on among settlers caused a certain amount of delay at the beginning. After things were amicably settled, the Board should have tried to expedite matters instead of keeping them back. The roads are now cutting up veryfast, and for a few months to come very little carting will be done into theblock. Settlers wisely took the precaution to get their winter supplies in early.