Te Rau-a-noa.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 331, 27 September 1907, Page 2

Te Rau-a-noa.

(FROM OUK OWN OORRESPONDBKT.) Inflaeizi has been a visitor at fome of cur hom •?, insisting on whole famdi* s boning t<-hi- will. But «t ange «o say, hke «he lvly vifit r be dots not cross tie thres old of r.he lor ely bachelor. It ia a notice*b tt’Ct that bachelors are generally «m--mune from either of these visiters. A bach >lor of nearly B’X years et<ud g boasts that he not kn «wn a d iya illness during ail tnat period. B m i«lorsdena, though not well lir, are always well ventilated. As an evidence of the persecution rneited out to the backblccka settler, a person here gave an order to a wedadverrised Auckland fi-m for a pair of boots. Not knowing the price, and having done a coaplo of yeirs M trade with this firm, he did not cash with order. After a fortnight he wind them he wanted goods at once, received no reply. A week later be wired again, and a week after that had bis telegram returned by post, with a foot note saying they would execute order on receipt of remittancs. So for four weeks this se t’er, ca: oft from civilisation ‘by impassable r.-ath, prayed iu vain for a pair of boo s, and at last got a reply. The only conclusion he has arr:Ved at (he did n-'t owe them an account) is that b ><>t firm- in general must be doing too well. T is settler is now emsideri g hoh southern firm he will transfer bis custom to.

At the last meetin » of sh« e • d b of the Dairy Comi»auy it wa-i g to note the passing away of a re ic <»f conservatism, the establisnm n n • <f which had caused a deal of fric i> n, and the adoption of a m >re lio>ral method of voting. Hitherio persons had a vote for every five shares held by them, but last week it was a one-man-one—vote policy at tbe ballot of directors. Still it was a no icawble fact that the defeated emdidatu lor a seit on the directorate was the biggest shareholder present at the meeting. It is to be hoped that on all fatore occasions the chairman will be consistent in his ruling, because, if otherwise, it would appear that tactics to be adop ed depend on who is present at tbe meeting.