DISTRICT NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10630, 8 May 1912, Page 7

DISTRICT NEWS.

[From Our Own Correspondent.']

ALFREDTON. ' 'tfS&'A'ktTi&tion. district, has just been visited A by two representatives of the 'Masterton A. and T. Association,, Messrs H. J. Dagg and J. B. Em-r iriott.' • 'These gentlemen, by dint of much argument- and porauasion, managed to collect somewhere about £3O. Tbiijs amount should .bo considered very satisfactory, considering tho. Fiosmewlhat strained feeling between tthitiS' district and Ahutorton. It is- a pjreat pity that su:h a fe.cli.nß 'shou'd exist, as it is detrimental to the interests elf both places. - The chief bone of contention appears to be tlhe , inclusion of the Alfredtou Riidine; 'in fljhe northern approach improvements, ••vntl the action ft the Masterton OiaimibeT of Commerce. It seems apparent to the 'heavily taxed settlers J OF,peuia.7,y in, .the lHV.tlhe.ra. portion of tth» district, I'ihat the' Mastcrton Chamber wants the whale loaf, otherwise the district can get along tho best way it can,. This feeling can be mitigated to a groat extent by the Mastcrton Chamber joining with the Kkeitahiuwa body and help to uirgo uponi the Government the necessity of helping these settlers whoso mail only arrives once a week and who are practEeally isolated ifar six months in the ycn.r. A& yeaiv roll by, game, with' the exception possibly of hares and quail, (hiave become scarcer, until mow a sportsman'is badly in, need of exercise ■who takes, a day off with the intention r of adding to the larder. Pigeons are 1 so scarce that a bag of haK a dozen I is considered very good. Kakas have disappeared almost entirely. An odd I one may be heard passing over when j the. flax is in flower. Ducks and pu-1 kakas pay the district a very occasional visit. [ BusMe'llers and! smnbouttens are [ again very hard to obtain this year. These days any person 'cherishing an intention of taking up an improved seetio.n< has not the cost of the land to consider so march as the expenses attached"to improving it. Firewood is very hard to obtain, in tffiie ■tbwnshH this winter. It'is only ~a matter -oT a-year 'or eo when all therlocal'residents .witfhayo >to- depend: entirely rapon coal.