ARAPOHUE.

Wairoa Bell, Volume IV, Issue 157, 5 August 1892, Page 2

ARAPOHUE.

[from our own correspondent.'' Dear Mr Editor, —I may perhaps scrape up a few items of interest for your readers this week. Th ' papers ■ f ’ate have been so interesting', I have been more ready peruse that! to write for the Indved'o'v.iiig So lie: : ■:11 :i.b condition of our roads and paddocks, we are so much confined to our homes, there is and has been very little to re-jord. A number of our young men gathered some time ago and took the cemetery ground in baud, clearing and ploughing the whole; They erected a monument to their industry in the shape of a huge pile of rubbish in the centre; as it could not he burned. The Trustees intend to plant some trees, but in’ st probably the season will vr» by ere any thing is lone. In entetbii.Tirncnt is in preparation to raise funds for the c n..p ;,-v. T: 1 ■ ieiii- . s are in training under i'e. guicUuce of iVirs W. Webb and hold re--1 '-'iirrsJa t rice weekly in the hall. A wire was received by Mr Kuching from our member Mr Thompson, telling him not to send the money for the telephone, so there appears some likelihood of our getting it without the subsidy which has been all subscribed. If so, the money might be given on condition that the wire should continue on to the school. A branch post office there •would be a great convenience, as many have six miles and more to travel now to post letters. Mr Hazard, Government surveyor has come to camp here for a time having some government sections which have been applied for to survey. He considers what the VVairoa wants most is a good road to Whangarei, and that this should be agitated for until obtained. The sheep are looking rather better this winter, but they will require more attention in future. Hay would probably help them to tide over the winter. Mr Smith has scored a success in ashphalting the walks around his house, what a comfort it would be about all houses ! Mr Smith obtained two casks of tar from the gasworks at twopence per gallon, and though laid down rather late in the season the walks are excellent, while the work is very simple and much easier than laying concrete, which is often a failure, Your Mareretu writer in common with Paparoa representitive are displeased with my remarks about their district. Well, sir, all I can say in reply is that I have written and intend to continue to write of things as I find them. A certain scribe wrote from or signed ‘ Mareretu ’ anent my remarks on my visit to Pahi, but when people come home from there, fancying they see two Airy hills when there is only one, they can hardly be relied on as impartial witnesses I expect you will have something to say regarding the Sydenham Prohibition case. It seems monstrous that a judge has the power to over-ride the verdict of the people in this fashion.