Carnarvon.

Manawatu Herald, 23 April 1895, Page 3

Carnarvon.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) „ THE WEATHER here is again very fine and pleasant, after the late heavy fall of rain whioh has done so much damage all round to the .railway and to the roads and bridges; but on the other hand the amount of feed that has sprung up is the Salvation of those who are heavily x-A fm-i-<.:\. PERSONAL " •■■ '•• - mßtsr'i I "tiave not turned out altogether in accordance with my last letter. Mr Hunter has indeed re- < turned to the Carnarvon Estate, but not to take up the management. He is abo»fc topay a visit to the Old Country, and Mr Langdon has been permanently appointed in his place. It is said that this appointment, the recipient of which has deservedly be-coma-popttlftP-iB-the-difltrictr is hailed h^the employees of the station with .great satisfaction. .';. RETRENCHMENT, it is said, is the order of the day with the newly appointed Oolonial manager of the Bank of New Zea- '

land Estates Company. The fiat has gone forth that all salaries and wages on the numerous estates of the bank be reduced at once by 12| per cent. The lime, do doubt, is opportune for such a sweeping and unheard of reduction, as the Country is swarming with men out of work. But this is not all* Hands must be reduced so that two will have to do the work that three did previously. This means throwing hundreds of men out of employment to swell the ranks of the unemployed. Such changes reflects undeservedly on the former management as it is wellknown that retrenchment had already been carried out oti all the Bank estates as far as efficiency adminted, so that the present alterations simply ineahS the penny moo and pound foolish system. The lowering of wages to such an extent goes far to make employees become time servors itistdad of their taking an interest in their work and the shortening of bands can only mean neglecting the stock and other things — the former to be left to die and the latter to go to decay. It must also be obvious to every ofle that the loss to the colony through such changes will be considerable abd this is the way this huge business shows its gratitude to the country, the people of which, only a few months ago had to prop it up by enabling it to borrow, and so becoming liable for, two millions of money. FAREWELL is sometimes a sad word to say, but I must say it to you Mr Editor for this is my last letter, as I am leaving the district in a few days perhaps never to see it again. When one gets acquainted in a place it is a bit hard to have to say good«.bye to those one knows and likes and there may be one to whom it is harder to say good-bye than all the rest put together. Yes, if it becomes a matter of life and death to say good-bye to that one then all other good-byes sink into insignificance and are easily said, but such is life. If our Being began and ended in this life then one might say that life is a failure, because we know that the happiness of the most happy here is as evanescent as the morning dew which vanishes before the scorching sun. Some few, indeed, figuratively speaking, succeed in rebuilding their Eden, but, only after a very little while to see it covered with floods and debris and made as desolate as the beautiful pink terraces were made by earthquakes near Rotorua a few years ago. 20th April, 1895.