Depression in Waipawa.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1573, 4 December 1885, Page 4

Depression m Waipawa.

[Waipawa Alail.~\ The depression which has nearly crushed the district of Waipawa during the jflet few months (says the Matt) has recently /; become • overpowering. On Saturday evening a family 'of artists came to play to the depressed inhabitants of the town, and the latter could only muster to the value of £25 to witness the entertainment. On the Monday a combination of poor misguided circus people came and pitched their tent m MoroneyV paddock, helievinsr, m their -ignorance of the hardn ( esa of the times, that 'they would get an audience together.Of course the result was, as Wight have been expected, that a tent '' which was made to hold 3000 was only i>atfonißed'hy 2400 visitors, th*se paying an aggregate and insignificant sum of £380 in,to the pockets of the management. Well they ought to have known better than to visit Waipawa m times of depression. But the story is not yet told. Whilst the clowns and horses were m full awing 'in Waipawa, the Faust Family had to submit to a paltry patronage worth about £20 m Waipukurau. On Tuesday evening the circus played again m the depressed town, and had to "put up with £50 worth of tickets, whilst the poor Fausta.only gathered £20 togetbpr m OrmonviUe, but put up with the indie-nity, because it wns pouring with Tain, and because of the univeteal depression which was known to be raging. The lesson which these two companies have learned during their three night's stay m thfi places mentioned has been, a snd one ; and one that should give them a pretty notion of ■what depression m this colony really means. Reckoning mr.t.hn figures quoted it will be seen that they took hetwocn them an "ggr«gate of i' 575, during the throe eveningß, upon which they performed.