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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 279, 28 April 1914, Page 8

it is astonishing how an article in it newspaper reviewing old times will cause a loosening <if the tongue mid tie iMiloc-kin-r ui' memories of tlu> old times. The article under I lie liead of the "Mou District" appearing in tlie News a littlo while ago rcviv-'d ilie of many old settlers, besides a rousing interest in those of younger generations, many of whom have i|Ui's(iiiiieil whether such things could have been (writes a correspondent.) A couple of old settlers who still carry the old Lincoln twang, were dealing out .some home truths to some younger ones in InglewooU the other day. They told of their voyage out (Mi the Avalanche, the discomforts they and their wives and children had to undergo when settled in the district, and the heart-breaking experiences of themselves us novices in a wild country, and ended with: "Tha dount knaw what 'tis now-a-days; if 'ya had to live on 'bubblem. sr|iicak' week in and i as many of us had to, tha would think ya hard done by, y