STOUT HEARTED PIONEERS.

Taihape Daily Times, 13 August 1919, Page 5

STOUT H EARTED PIONEERS.

A retuzned soldier, enamoured with the idea of getting on the land recvntly um:-riocl, and took up a bush farni neat‘ X-'\7ail)lilla in the King Country. The young couple were Willing to start life together in a thl'ee-roonl- - house, and to furnish it. They bouglit a modest amount of useful I'll-liiture, and also boughtna sufficient supply of stores to last them throughout the r-.=._=naillder of the winter. They were young and ardént and wished to Settle on their place a once; but, alas, {or human hopes, the railway would not carry." their furniture to the nearrst I'i'Lil\V:’._V station to their homea This. they thought, was an obstacle rd be ca;-i‘..y overcome,-and a wagon: was hired to take the stuff into the L-ackblocks. but here, again, they were thwarted. for a. big slip had taken pltcc in the road leading on to their I".eW hom(‘.>Le:ld and no efforts were being inade to clear it away, for there were no men available to ‘clear the obstruction, and again the railway blocked the way by not allowing men to travel who could have done the 50!). Tho Young soldier farmer says there is not much fun in pioneering When the‘-‘G are so many difficulties to o"9T'Com<‘- “But, once I get in,” ‘TII make things hum, and try and forget’ the initial difficulties”