THROUGH OTHER EYES.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 February 1920, Page 3

THROUGH OTHER EYES.

TARANAKI RE-VISITED. (By Our Moa Correspondent). , It will possibly be interesting, specially to Moa District readers, to learn now the present condition of Taranaki generally and of Moa, soon to be the new Inglewood County, in particular, strikes a visitor who, formerly, intimately acquainted with the life of the settlers in that latter locality, has returned for a visit after an absence of: sl.glitly more than eleven years. ifr W. Foxcroft, the visitor referml to, had some twenty or more years' exK C T of f T life ' as ;t wa ' s livefl in Aorth Taraanki, up to 1908, when he sold-his place on the Upland road, after I?« n ,/ earS ' and left for resh fields; and, after a good look round finally settled in Tauranga, whence he IS now making the holiday trip that has brought him to Inglewood. Mr. I'oxcroft was well known in this district as a clear-headed, shrewd, observant sett er, and those who knew him best will be much inclined to give some weight to his opinions and remarks on what he has seen during his visit. In the first place Mr. Foxcroft expresses the pleasure it has (riven him to meet so many old friends, 'ynd to be received so heartily amongst them— JUS lf I had only been away a m nth but he knew his fellow-set-of old days too well to • be surprised at his reception. He is delighted with the greenness of the country round, as well as -being impressed by the generai note of progress and the prosperous appearance of the settlers. "It's the best Place, to my mind, that I have yet seen at the same stage of development. It as eveiything in its favor for an amaz'l'tfly prosperous future.'' With New Plymouth advancing at, the rate .it has done, and is, the prospects of the port improving rapidly though steadily, railway connection with the coast lands southward; and northward, an energetic, go-ahead population who know what they want and mean to get it, things, cunnot fail to advance, and now that the old Moa is about to be hatched from the egg into a vigorous young Dimornis, as it ought to have been long ago but for the want of heat in its incubating progenitors. I lie whole of this district, with Inglewood for its centre, should, in his opinion, go forward without hindrance. The business spirit of Inglewood seems to him brisker and fuller of life than formerly, especially as regards th ' stock sales, which, being conducted 'I)V such strong firms as those of Mr. Hewton King and the Farmers' Organisation Society, will ensure to the town & position well to the front rank