TENUI NOTES.
(Own Correspondent.) Saturday. | Everything is quiet here, hardly a I sound to be heard, ctily that of the [ wind whistling through the trees, or a dog barking. '■ To live in this district one has to be endowed with a poweful nervous system, as the solitude is nearly unbearable. No engine whistle is to be heard, no dairy farmers latdirg along the road with the milk for the factory, not even a divorce case to make a little excitment, there is no "smart set" here, orly the "duil set." Burglary is conspicuous by its absence, because there is nothing to steal. Shearing time is the only part of the year when there is any bustle. Men come here from all parts of the coionies for shearing and shed work, but when the work is done, we again sink back into the awful calm
Several thousand sheep are shorn, a few waggon loads of wool away and another year's products of this fertile district are gone
Can anybody tell us why this should be the case; is not the district capable of exporting produce all the year round and keeping a few thouand men employed, or is the district only fit to support a large number of sheep and cattle, and only a few people?
Mr Roosevelt says that land doss not belong to man, but the man belongs to the lard; so if the exPresident is correct, we here are wrong to allow the land to be held in the way it is. Just think what would happen if these lands were thickly populated. There would be a large town here with good roads and clean footpaths recreation grounds, music halls, teachers of music, wood-carving and . other aitp, a boxing saloon, where young men could punch each other's heads, a working man's club, fire brigade. The town would be lit wit the latest light, water would be laid on, sittings of th? Supreme Court would be held nere, and everything else that follows population. "There is a movement to form a branch of the Labour Federation here, and if the Federation is as successful in the Dominion as in Aus-
tralia, a Labour Government will soon be in power, £.nd the dark cloud that is hanging over the masses will be replaced with sunshine.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10031, 4 July 1910, Page 7
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385TENUI NOTES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10031, 4 July 1910, Page 7
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