WAIORONGOMAI ENDOWMENTS

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43337, 13 June 1908, Page 3

WAIORONGOMAI ENDOWMENTS

[To the Editor.] Snt, —I was very much amused at the remarks of your voluble correspondent on the High School leases ; the tears of anguish he has at command for these unfortunate tenants should be ample protection against the recurrence of a droughty and in event of a cattledriving, no-rent party being formed in _ , the district, your pseudo Colonial-Irish correspondent would have undoubted claims to the leadership. On his admission the farms are undoubtedly good land, and yet many of them are a disgrace to the district, and even a , . * doctor ’ or a ‘storekeeper’ can recognise this fact. The tenants who have put the work into their farms are . reaping the benefit, ariaone could bet a fiver that the £7OO rent arrears the Board talks about is not owed on those farms which we can-see have been, worked in a proper manner. Every credit is due to the Board for the stand it. has taken in insisting on the conditions of their lease being carried out, and this action is likely to result in much more prosperity to our district, than if the land is allowed to remain in the neglected condition in which a great deal of it is at .... present. , Your correspondent’s remarks regarding the hampering of the mining industry is pure claptrap. Everyone in Waiorongomai knows that the Board has ceded all its mining rights to the Crown, and that a mining lease on the Endowment can be obtained on the same terms as any other goldfields lease.—l . ; am, etc,,

Another Parmer.