A RAETIHI REPROACH

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 163, 15 March 1915, Page 4

A RAETIHI REPROACH

PREACHING V. PRACTICE, A Ruotiti correspondent to (lie C. '! says;—“If some of the Raetihi at.keepers heard the opinions expressed • f them by settlers and workers out 3,, they would well nigh faint. At p,r vnr the wheels of progress—or I shorn-!

say, store carts—refuse to run further than Epps’, which has been a depot for a considerable tame. Whether the horses refuse to pass the gate or n r ‘your own’ doesn’t know, but the opinion here is that the bulk of the orders will go out next summer unless matters are remedied. While I am on the storekeeping, I might mention Miat every time through your paper, Mr. Editor, I note the continual houl, support your own town and make your suport your own town and make your la ml valuable by increasing the size of your town!’ These so-called traders who have the town of Eaetihi and dis-tric-t at heart should put their own house in order first. Every time I got an invoice or an account of any kind I notice that it is almost invariablv printed outside by firms in Palmerston North, Wanganui, or or Auckland, or places not very adjacent to Eaetihi. I marvel, Mr. Editor, at these traders pointing out to the settlers the benefits they will derive fro;;: supporting their own town, yet, those self-same trade puritans refuse to support their own traders to build up tlreir own town and district.”