Manawaru Notes.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4439, 22 July 1909, Page 2

Manawaru Notes.

(From a Correspondent.)

Mr Fitzgerald, since taking over his property here, has made great strides in clearing and ploughing, and I hear he intends to cut it up into smaller sections. A great many of the settlers visited Hamilton during Show week, taking advantage of the time of year when no cows aae about. The milking machine seems to be the one topic that prevails when two meet. Messrs Wright Bros, are installing a Simplex. This makes three different kinds in the district, and farmers will be able ,o judge for themselves after seeing them at work.

Our roads are getting cut up a little, und will require some attention. Before the last County election, our member promised to do his best to stop settlers from grazing their cattle on tbe roads, but I suppose he considers that “ electioneering promises ” do not count. .Mr Squirrel!, in your issue of the 10 th, misquotes what I said in a former issue. He states that I said the present Chairman only took up one share. He may have taken 5b sinco, for all I know, but at the first meeting of shareholders he attended, on coming back July Bth, l' : 05, he held only one share, and Mr Squirrell knows that as well as anyone. Will Mr Squirrell deny that that gentleman was the first to desevt the Co-op }* also that he sold his shares at a premium, after grabbing a bonus which the auditor said was not a wise th : ng to do in the first year. These things occurred before Mr Squirrell Was Secretary, and no one blames him for it. The man who signs on, gi abs the first month’s advanoe, and leaves the affair to sink or swim, is a deserter indeed, notwithstanding all Mr Squirrell’s pleading. Our schoolmaster met with a slight accident on Saturday last, on his way to Te Aroha in the mail coach. By some means the horse fell, the shafts parted, and things got mixed up a hit. Fortunately a waggon, going the same way, came along, and the schoolmaster and mails were taken to Te Aroha.