WHAT HAVE WE DONE?
"It is about time that you got a' move on :n this district, and got some of y,our large estates opened up for settlement." This was, the unkind remark which was passed by a visitor, to a representative of the. Age yesterday. About time we yM a move on! Why, have we not been ; moving for these last twenty y<?ars? Have we not consistently retried a'Grovernme^" ; sttpporter' as, our i:ep,- ' resentative? Have we not offerer, ourselves upon the altar of i-tuhh politics? And what have we fot? In all that long, weary twenty yt_irs we have been given a Post Offi « and railway station which would '-'have > come under any circumstance, while i one small estate was voluntarily j handed over to s the Grovonruent. I These, are the .rewards of *';u;hM- I ii£'S&> Over a million acres .vf C r»wu I lands are now being opensd -.'iiji ;n the Dominion. And how much in the Masterton electorate? Nil—o ' nothing! What have we done to deserve these things? ! r '
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10164, 14 February 1911, Page 4
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173WHAT HAVE WE DONE? Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10164, 14 February 1911, Page 4
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