A BIG ORDER.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 330, 20 September 1907, Page 3

A BIG ORDER.

(to the editor.) Sir, —Will you please ask the Government if they will subsidise the Kawhia County Council £1 for £l, say tip to £2OO, to invent some scheme to Beal the rent in the clouds ihat those Billy idiots down in Oamaru have been bursting asunder. We have had 28 days on which it has ruined either through the day or by night, and most of the time raining both day and night Binco they started to experiment. I think it is quite as necessary for the Government to help our local body to itop the rain as it was to help our Southern neighbours to procure it. The dynamite and guncotton caused so much deal ruction up amongst the Clouds that it will take a long time to heal up the dreadful wounds. Certainly, Mr Editor, it is becoming very serious, as any settlor who is living on flats or low lying grounds knows to his sorrow. Everything is fairly sodden with water, the King Country •‘pig tracks,” called road?, are up to the horse/ girths in slush, and I cun assure you that the back-block settler is having a rough lime of it. There have been more losses in stock this last month than all through the winter, especially owes and lambs. In many cases as many as 10 to 12 lambs, and several ewes dying in a day. This number out of a flock of about 100, is pretty rough on the small farmer who is struggling to get a start. What with no roads , and almost impassable track-, loss of slock and hundreds of other inconveniences, which the settler in thy back blocks has to put up with, his life is anything but a happy One. Then the Trade Unions in towns are clamoring to deprive the farmer of the unearned increment value in bis laud. Lot some of the ones who have most to say, c me out and live in the back-blocks for a few months in winter. I think they will soon change their opinion, There is no such thing as unearned increment in bush country —everything that is made or earned is dearly bought or worked for. This fact can bo vouched for by thousands who have had experience in bush country in New Zealand.—Yours etc., HAUTURU.