Kinohaku.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 368, 3 July 1908, Page 2

Kinohaku.

(FROM OUR OWN OORRHSPoK. BNT.) A public meeting cf tbe Kinohaku Branch of the Farmers’ Union was held at Mr Harper’s Boardinghouse on June 20th, Mr W. J. Shaw presiding. Tbe Chairman rendered an aoc nut of bis stewardship rotative to vari remits from Kinohaku and iww Branches at the Provincial Cnof-wn ' cos held at Auckland on Mav 21« t and 22nd. Amongst other things it w a re« I ved that the see., ww - tn ■ M »■- for Public Works, asking hint le* on tho estimates the sum «»f £2 >7) which amount has already b—n ec remanded for erection of a bn-lg • r tbe Waiharakeke channel. 1 mLh say that a great amount f onrre->p donee has passed between tbi’ brer.oand the powers that be with reference to this most important work- Mr Burd, District Road Engineer, has -n all occasions when approached on this matter shown a genuine desire to assist in eyery way tbe oft repeated efforts of the settlers here to attract the attention of the Government, and induce them to erect this more than important structure.

A petition was drawn up by tbs secretary as requested on behalf of tbe Kinohaku Village Settlement Settlers, to be forwarded to the Minister for Lands, asking him to remove tbe restrictions now placed on this block so as to enable all those who are desirous of so doing to increase their holdings. I have during the past two years endeavoured both by corresponding with and interviewing the various officers of the Government, from the Minister for Lands down, to get this disability removed, but up to the present my eff >rts have only met with partial success. However, I earnestly bope*ihat this petition, which is being largely signed, will have the desired effect. Io connection with this grievance, I have in my possession two letters received from the Crown Lands Office, Auckland, both of which impresses upon me the desirability of getting married, otherwise the Land Board cannot consider my application for additional land. Perhaps it might be to my advantage to act on this advice (at least 1 thought so once and will not

say that my opinions have suffered much change since then —however, I consider marriage to be too sacred a thing to be approached in this commercial spirit). Surely the land laws of the Dominion have not become «a tyrannical as to prevent one from b »l ding sufficient land to main ain him self ou in a reasonable and ind->pead<*n t manner, simply because he doe< n.» see fit to resign his indeoen ieoca ai l became, as often happens, the weak*** end of a matrim inial combine If hi< is really the manner by which the lai I legislators hope to infiict ounishm « v •on we poor society-abauioned bachelors, well then Ido not care h s) »a I leave this vale of tears, f>r it is oo much like slavery existing under oieou nstances which in my opinion are alt igether at varianca with liberty and jaitioe. Idm’t want to occupy your ipaca by retailing ok the many hardship? ondur.-d only too patiently by the buih settler as th - kind of life is only tao familiar to tbs groat majority of your readers Ba; h'w 'oug, mi" I ask, ire ue v n daliving iu a laud wire un auoa a exist