Oparau.

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

Oparau.

(FROM OUR OWN (J )REESP (NDfcNT.) Rain, rain I We hope it is not to be a reposition of last spring as we lost heavily st lambi :g lima, both > wes and lamb-*, lheu the fre augtimi nted on- 1 osjes The wet weather is retarding wirk. A I ’Cal settler received a no*ice that a native base he had app’itd for 2 y?ars and 6 months la k wts passed. If that settler had bean waiting to start for 2s years he would ba about disgusted with our obsolete na-ive land laws. Sir J. G. Ward promised to do as we want re natives and their land and we must keep him going or be may forgot all about it. Individualise all native lands, eliminate all . sent native laws and give the n itiv and whites tbe one code of law. Dr Mackenzie is due at K twh n Friday. He is using iron «an 1 » in place of posts as they are co- • easier to put in and last f>r ev-- \ local pariri owner asked 33- p r hi- • dred royalty for posts, 'he pi wanted 35s per hundred uid v « carted the posts would be over €4 e hundred. Farm labour is mud t> > gb here yet and until the u-u-«l fv-n - ire come no great improvement nil be done.