TINUI.
Shearing is about at an end here for this year, Manawa and Tinui stations "cut out" to-day. Castlepoint is the only large holding left to finish. There will he a number of fat sheep and cattle to go away, and then the products for the district are gone for another year. While two burly shearers were enjnying a friendly glass over the counter the other day, one remarked that the people in this district are the lost 11ihe of . Israel, and to prove hia remarks, said, "Why, there tre nothing but sheep and cattle and shepherds here." The district u also isolated. No trains or aeroplanes come here, and by having no fingerposts visitors often miss the road and find themselves going back to Masterton. There are ko few marriages here that this "Tribe" will soon become extinct unless the land is cut up into smaller holdings and young men given an opportunity of making a home Rain 13 badly needed, but the settlers are too hard-headed to spend money on "rain-making," while the wind is m the present quarter.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10139, 9 December 1910, Page 5
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181TINUI. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10139, 9 December 1910, Page 5
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