DISTRICT NEWS.
UEENUI. (From Our Own Correspondent.) The Waitara Brass Band gave a dance here on Monday night. The attendance was small, about 30 couples being present. Music was supplied by the band, and supper was handed round about 12 o'clock. Mr. L. Rattcnbury made & capable M.C. A most enjoyable evening wag spent, the dance breaking up at 2 a.m. I hope our band friends will not be disheartened, and if they do come again that they will have a bumpe v r house. Mr. ,T. Skinner, surveyor, has started cutting up the native reserve across the river here, the natives having agreed to each native having his own piece ol land. This is a step in the right direction, as before there used to be a lot of discord among themselves about who should crop this piece or that. I believe our euchre and dance partics will start shortly. This will help to while away the length of the long nights which aTe now on us. I notice that the Native Land Purchase Board held a meeting recently, being presided over by Mr. Carroll, ActingPremier, and that no less than 464,787 acres of land were offered to the Board, but no more than 2577 acres were accepted and purchased. This is land settlement with a vengeance! We thought that after nil the native land legislation which bad been passed, with a flourish of trumpets, that we weme getting near the solution of the native land problem. As regards settlement, we seem to be as far off as ever, i think we should burn all the native land Acts and start again. Surely, plenty of native land can be acquired for settlement, and justice done to the natives and Europeans. We hope to see our popular "Jehu," Mr. R. PepperiH, who is in the New Plymouth Hospital, back on Ehc road soon. The weather is getting colder, but it is fine and crisp. We are still wondering here why the Hon. R. McKenzie was so hard on the settlers re the erection of a bridge over the Mokau river. How about the £500.000 spent in duplicating a railway line in the South Island?
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 304, 18 May 1911, Page 8
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363DISTRICT NEWS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 304, 18 May 1911, Page 8
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