MOTUROA PROGRESS.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 December 1918, Page 7

MOTUROA PROGRESS.

To ; the. Editor. Sir,-For various reasons, which ure not now necessary to discuss, the port of Moturoa lias languished £Uid made little or no progress, despite the undoubted many attractions and advantages it possesses in the way of being the shipping port for Taranaki, and having a good railway and tram service, good sea bathing, etc., etc. I -would respectfully suggest that the Harbor Board road and cut up the harbor reserve at Moturoa for building sections. This land is admirably adapted for this purpose, being high and dry; having a northerly aspect and generally sloping towards the harbor. This land is laying idle at present, and, if cut up, would, I feel sure, be rapidly taken up and built on, thus becoming a source of revenue to the Harbor Board, besides giving the public an opportunity of obtaining a good healthy building site on long leases and relieve the unhealthy crowding of building on the beaches.—l am, etc.. W. H. JITZPATRICK.

So the Editor Sir,-—T would beg a small space in your widely-read paper to correct a statement mado by your Midhirst correspondent some days ago with regard to the sickness amongst the settlers on the Croydon Settlement. The impression has gone abroad through the statement of the above said correspondent that Mr K. Adlam hod done more for those soldier settlers during their illness than anyone else, which is not correct, as I will try to show. While those men were ill Mr Adlam's own family were down with the same complaint, and he himself was ill and should have been in bed but for having a herd of nearly fifty cows to rnillc and the milk to take to the factory, and no one but children to help him. Besides other necessary work on the farm, he had to attend to Mrs Adlam and the children, who were ill in bed, and—let. it be said to his credit—in spite of his own illness he stuck to it like a Briton. How could he find time to attend to six or seven sick men who were living a mile or more away and scattered at that. But, Mr Editor, this is what I want to explain, so that your readers may know who did help them- It seems only fair since your correspondent mentioned the name of one who could not possibly help them, however willing he may have been, that the names of those who did most for their comfort should be mentioned too. Mrs Woodmore, a lady not too strong herself, did all in her po\Ver by cooking' and carrying food to them, not only oute but often twice daily, and doing many things for their comfort. A paid nuke could not have done more, and Mr? Woodmore looks for nothing, but no doubt she likes justice. Mr Blanchard, a settler among them, did more than any other man for them. As he kept well himself, he -lot inly milked his own cows but also milked as many as he could for the sick ones, and took what he could of their milk to the factory, washed their can?, went about among them, got food and medicine for them, and spent all his snare time doing something for them. His own farm, of course, had- to be neglected, and now he lias to work rlouMv hard to make up lost ground. Mrs Blanchard (mothev of the above Mr Klanchard, who was away from home whoa the sickness first attacked these men, as soon as she was free, although not too well herself, started out to do what she could for them by making delicacies such as sick people like, and sending to them. And when the last on the settlemnet, both husband and wife, went down with the disease, she went to their help, stayed at night, with them, and did all she could for their comfort. Here she and Mrs Woodmore shared the work until a nurse was sent to relieve them. And here is where Mr Adlam comes in. His own family being on the mend, lie sent his hoy who, with a son of Mr Zimmerman's. milked this man's cows, and took his milk to the factor?.—T am. etc.. A LOVER OP JUSTICE, Waipuku, 17th December.