VILLAGE SETTLEMENTS.

Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 1, Issue 18, 10 August 1886, Page 2

VILLAGE SETTLEMENTS.

(TO THE EDITOR.) Sir,—The fset of the Pahiatu* Village Settlement living the first experiment of the kind is a valid reason for de\ ling s little space to the w ay it has hitherto been managod. Within a few months a numbor of similar settlements will be started, and it is very desirable that any le- is to be learnt from the one at our ow n doors should not be passed over. Your readers will remember that plans of the Settlement were circulated ; and here the first mistake may be noticed. The plans did not show where the place was. It is true they showed it on the east side of the main road ; they did not show its distance north or south from any well known landmark, such as the Man galaitioka Bridge. Hence passers-by, travellers, swaggers, and visitors of all kinds, bail a great deal of extra trouble in finding out exactly where the land was. One road is like another. Who ran identify “ cross road” or “ short road" on the spot ? Temporary sign boards would obviate tins. Also, liie plan should not show roads that do not exist. Tile Man garamaraina road, fur instance, is shown on the plan, but is not felled, so that anyone looking for it is apt to get ou another one and go tmlea astray, (suppose, however, that bv diligent enquiry a would.be settler hss found the made, be has great trouble to find sections. There arc any amount of “ blind ” pegs; that is. peg* I which relate to other matters; and the section pegs arc not 111 all cas, * llargcd

1 now emiie to the quested of .ding ut application*. It seen.* tome at rd to require a deposit, especially in the inronvemrnt rinu of Ida. An a; pi * t how to gel a money order from VI ■ h and if he is unsucresaful is alt-igvO rls . tof picket, beside# his bug nde. A !<. - tof ill. return,-! in hill if ti < unsuccessful. Would be far hotter. It could be aent in the form of a ret r with, out any trouble. Again. lah uld hi -• to know whether there ts any a »te register ~f sections tak< n up. A mar * > thinks of applying would like to k- w for certain w Ist sections w, re really - The last point to dwell on i* the • • • of regulations. The Drier in t•• uiei reprinted on the plans, says that rev .!* lions mav be made by "the Steward f Village rfetth-menta." CledVfy Hi contemplated is a colonial ibis, and t'.e conditions when made sheula be fc trie colony, and not a local affau. It is ir »« unsatisfactory to see th. :u | oated in manuscript on the door of aat >. They should be gaxetted. pr.; rt, J on the plans, and a copy supplied tr every .ill r 1 have never been able to I .- w orth -r " the Steward of Villa,-, S, tiien ■ >| has been appointed. 1 am a»v list Mr Mo ka\ is acting her, r* if *. ,e Government, but In ert— H_. ut. The Steward” inten ls,l by the Or 1 - m t'o :n cih Tlic above remarks are lr l, • I I in no carping spirit. All n«w erterpeisre are survoimded with difficultly, si. i vi way to ensure success is to learn by experience, and to avoid errors that am likely to lead to uueunderwtaoding atii complaint.—l mm. Ac., A Resiiest