The Manawatu Herald. Tuesday, February 28, 1911. NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 960, 28 February 1911, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. Tuesday, February 28, 1911. NOTES AND COMMENTS.

One often hears disparaging remarks about “foreigners” who come to this country, and after making a competency, depart, taking their fortunes with them. A bright exception to this rule is recorded by the Oamaru Mail, which says: “At the ripened age of So years, Mr Nanheim Krakour, of Berlin, who was a resident of North Otago 40 years ago, still retains his interest in the wellbeing of the district. In a letter he has written to the Oamaru Hospital Trustees Mr Krakour says‘ln the expectation of years to come, time seems to us an age, while deceniums left behind us appear like a dream from which only a lively remembrance remains. Forty years ago, as I was living at Hampden, with a limited population, I assisted to the establishment of the Oamaru Hospital, and after leaving Hampden in 1877 I endowed that institution with my whole acquired

town property at that place, wishing, if the funds received therefrom sufficiently accumulated, that a separate ward to be called Hampden ward, be provided. Ten years ago, on arriving at ray seventieth birthday I had the pleasure of corresponding with your honourable committee, whereupon I duly received an answer dated 23/9/04. Now, as the Almighty in His grace permitted me in bodily health and clear mind to conclude, on the 13th December last, my eightieth birthday, I again seek the pleasure of corresponding with you, feeling still the interest to hear of the progress of your institution. Have Oamaru and Hampden now largely increased tbeir residing population, with industrial establishments to give employment to hundreds of steady working men ? I see in it the foundation of the prosperity to trade and commerce and at the same time the fulfilment of my above-men-tioned wish. With kind greetings to the honourable committee members I await your kind answer and remain as a wellwishing friend to the progress of your beloved institution. — Manheim Krakour.’ ” How many there are in the Dominion to-day who, comparatively, are in more affluent circumstances than this “foreigner,” yet do they begrudge the payment ot a small rate for the betterment ot their fellows or for the advancement of that part of the country which has raised them from positions of hewers of wood and drawers ot water.