DRURY.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 268, 20 April 1917, Page 4

DRURY.

The noxious weeds still continue as a curse to the Drury district and a cause of profanity to tho pedestrian who ventures on to (lie footpaths after dark. The blackberries in many places have laid claim to the side paths and if their encroachments are not curtailed" soon they will be hard foes to deal with. It seems to be nobody's business to see that they are kept in .subjection, although there are such officers as Noxious Weeds Inspectors, who no doubt inspect the weeds but seem to take no action as to their destruction.

Should the present conflict in Europe last much longer the Drury district will be depleted of its \oung men. No district in New Zealand has done better. A good number of her hoys went into camp last week all of whom were volunteers.

A correspondent wiites : "Ri land for settlement for returned soldiers. I think in the vicinity of Drury could be found an estate that would bo suitable for such a project and where now no family lives might easily support from ten toado/°n families. The land is practically waste land and at such a time as this such a state of affairs should not be tolerated I known! few places in the country so well adapted for close settlement so near to the railway and adjacent 'to the city of Auckland." '

The Presby'erians, who have bo>-n for some timejvrithout a pastor, are soon to have candidates fur the vacant charge, for' tho last few Sundays the JR ev . Aahton has filled the pulpit and his discourses have been appreciated.