Kinohaku.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 351, 28 February 1908, Page 2

Kinohaku.

(from our own cobrkspomdknt.) The fires in this district have not ; been so destructive as in ocherquarters, in fact it is quite the reverse, ae it has | done an enormous amount of good burning up old clearings, etc. I have not heard of one solitary instance of house property or stock baying been de stroyed or lost through tire. There has been some minor losses with fences, but then the good work done by tbe fire ought to more than compensate for that. Taking it as a whole, the district has gained rather than lost by recent events.

There is a movement on foot with the object of raising mo ley for erec- ; tion of public hall and with this end in view the sporte committee have decid- . ed not to hold sports this year, but use | their best energies in common with all those who have the welfare of their district at heart in she realisation of this ambition. Mr J. E. Scott has generously given a site in a most convenient place, and it only now remains for the people here to rieo to the occasion by providing the necessary funds for the erection of this much needed building. There will be a meeting at Mr Harper’s ou Saturday evening 29th iust to discuss ways and means of doing so.

The weather, m per usual seems to be uppermost iu peoples minds just now. It ia indeed gratifying to see so many deserving cockeye stepping around with beaming countenances explaining what an amount of good this rain will do after the prolonged spell of dry weather. I have beard suggestions and proposals as to how the drought could be broken up before this date, but I greatly fear that they would not have met with the unanimous approval of that portion of the community who I might describe as aggressive aud rampant teetotallers. Sir, I have no ambition to encourage or promote intemperance neither do I desire to interfere with the rights or privilagee of others in this connection, for as a rule it is tbe individual, not the community who suffers. Anyhow the man who is tempted beyond the bounds of reason occasionally, and drinks not wisely but too well, is admittedly a fool for the time, but he can console himself with the reflection that be himself was the occasion of it, not nature. I am at times forced to tbe conclusion that one can violate, with impunity all the other commandments of God as laid down by Moses, so long as you touch not that body destroying and mind debasing beverage which some describe as a cure for all eare