The Patea County Press, AND Manutahi-Waitotara District Guardian. “Be Just and Fear Not.” THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1887. AT LAST.

Patea Mail, Volume I, Issue 4, 3 November 1887, Page 2

The Patea County Press, AND Manutahi-Waitotara District Guardian. “Be Just and Fear Not.” THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1887. AT LAST.

Yes, at last! our settlers have soon the necessity ol energetic and dcc-ism action, and have resolved to help themselves, and yesterday’s mooting - proved, most imnnstakeably, that to will is L do, and that when our settlers take a thing lu hand they mean it to ‘‘ g - o-’ Whoa the result of the canvass was first read out: Patoa (town and environs), £350, (including £SO from i\fr Lysaght;; 1/atoa youth, £1.73; North, £255. Hawera, £lO9, (exclusive of £25 donated hy Mr Lysaght, as an alternative donation if site in I’ataa {.'oimly, and subsequently made into 50 iri-espoctive of site) and £3‘ -Mr imeerut. —in all £1)17 —the prospect looked anything bat promising, and “ another slip ” stared evoryono in the face. There appeared, however, to he a determination not to allow tho offm to be lost, and a further canvass was at once made in tho room and it was found that fives, tens, and twenties were being added to the list, until from £917 the amount rose to £1073, when '■ho nmnilicent donation ol £IOO from the Anchor Company was notified, and the game was virtually won. Some of tho speakers were very “plain spoken’’ about Hawera s share in the undercaking, and though any such feolihg s to bo deprecated, it is impossible to v/ouder at it. Hero was an utideraking, professedly set on foot under he auspices of tho Hawera Agricultu •al and Pastoral Association, which uust inevitably benefit tho whole disrict beyond all calculation, languishing for want of generous support and die Hawera County contributes the sum d £’2o9, all told, out of a, total of £1173, and when, we consider that £8 ’ of that £209 is contributed by nvo gentlemen, it loaves for tho whole d' tlio rest of tho County, the munili-

j--lit sum of £ 1 tl). Looking- at those .igures, it is .scarcely possible to won.' lor at the remarks made, and wo fed greatly inclined to -the .belief expressed by sumo .speakers, that the canvas It id not been conducted with tiny spirit, and that the opinions expressed by the “ Star” were not by any moans the opinions held by iho Hawera people g\'nerally; be this as it may "he figures and facts remain as incontrovertible evidence of the assistance so far granted by the Unworn County to an underlaid ig-, universally admitted to bo ihe most directly and importantly bsueficial one, that could bo established. How near the district came to losing- this boon, was amply shown by the necessity of obtaining- the personal guarantee, of a dozen gentlemen in the room, for the balance of the bonus; when the suggestion made by Mr It. A. Adams at the last meeting, but at the time looked upon, with little short of ridicule, became the lover by which the undertaking was secured, and what was at first considered impassible rapidly grew into an established fact, and instead of a difficulty arising- to find the twelve “ good men and true, thirteen volunteers presented than selves, and agreed to back their opinions of the genuineness of their fellow settlers by becoming responsible for the amount required. It now rests with those settlers to prove, and prove quickly, that the opinions held of them are not erroneous, and in this wo hope v ur Hawera friends will bote {lie fere with help ; they have now an opporunity of shewing their ••true grit” and no are much mistaken if they do imt n spend handsomely. Two of tlu-ir hading settlers have volun tarily become iheir sponsors, and it is surely tiutiecessaiy [to even hope that they will not allow any reproach to fall on them now, but nobly pur. their shoulders to the wheel, and stick bt their friends, and their district—wo do not mean county but district in its broadest sense and boundary—and join heart and hand in making one grand garden of prospe:ily of this favoured portion of their adopted count rv.