TE MAPARA.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 468, 25 May 1912, Page 3

TE MAPARA.

Own Correspondent,

What a topsy-turvey old world we live in! The summer had passed away without alteration in our district save an increase in the everlasting grass, the pruverbial hope which springs eternal in the human breast had deserted its traditions and us. And now, by some strange freak of destiny, blessings are beginning to fall upon us like rain to the thirsty. Already our telephone has been officially opened; an invaluable acquisition to a district where accidents are aa yet only too frequent —both bodily and financial.

The foreman is now working at the school might and main, anxious to regain thosn. spurs of which a preponderance of mud and a dearth of carters so nearly robbed him. Last but not least a number of men have been recently striving to patch our mutilated road, and preserve their name, which stands for so little and so much.

With regard to roads, the settlers look forward to a Utopian state of existence, for have not number of squatters with intellects proved, and intentions unimpeachable, shown them a way which leads out of the darkness, namely, to borrow £BOOO and have the road metalled and re-metalled from Te Kuiti to the homes of their political advisers. The settlers along the whole area are in every case already heavily taxed, and specially loaded for roads. The able promulgators of the scheme are independent magnates who live over the border in a defunct county where no rates are paid. As the road to be metalled leads to their several estates, suspicion, which man is heir to, stirs the breasts of the poor settler; but away with such debasing thoughts, for have not these men brains, and is not brain 3 the best of all capital. Only those pay base coin to the realm who cannot contribute original thoughts.