ARAPOHUE.

Wairoa Bell, Volume IV, Issue 161, 2 September 1892, Page 2

ARAPOHUE.

[from our OWN CORRESPONDENT. T It would seem that my remarks re cemetery funds and trustees have had some effect. A meeting' was held today and a statement, of accounts given, viz., By subscriptions £4 is Share of hall receipts £3, Burials £2. So that the trustees have now sufficient T ids pat rim ground in order. The ground is to bo ropk,uglietl. about December and sown with the finer kinds of grasses in autumn and shrubs planted. The thanks of the trustees are to be convoyed to the young men who ploughed and cleared the ground, To Mr Berridge for an entrance gate, and those who raised the money by hall entertainments. The trustees intend to divide the ground by two paths and asbpalt them if possible. It is gratifying and encouraging to find some one occasionally openly expressing appreciation of another’s efforts, and I desire to thank your worthy writer ‘‘Nemesis” for his compliinent. It is pleasing to see that the Beet, is able, despi'c the dullness of trade, to hold on its way ; and 1 trust it may continue and thus help to advance the district and community in every way. We are living in stirring times, and the press now plays a most, important partin all human affairs. It is probably more literally true now than ever before that “ the pen is mightier than the sword.” Look at the state of affairs in America, that boasted “land of liberty.” Wliat are these terrible and deplorable outrages but the outcome of cruel wrong and oppression, of hear!less capital grinding labour. When individuals can in a lifetime heap up thirty or foity millions ; millions of their fellow creatures must be robbed and oppressed to produce it. Fortunes like this do not grow like grain, but it is wrung like blood from the people by some wrong or another. I remember in the early days being- in a store belonging to one of our saw mill companies and they were marking up goods for sale ; cost price of an article 10s marked turwk: at ids and so on. A storekeeper at the present time I know of buys, (or takes) butter from a se' tier and charges for one tin of kerosene what a case is advertised for in the BllX. A settler who encourages this unfair dealing', is doing wrong to himself and the community There should be none of tills system allowed, and the best way is to discourage it. i think it is time for us to try and establish a butter factory of some sort. If a settler produces butter and sells it to a storekeeper for is per lb and is charged double for his goods what he could purchase them for if he had received the cash, he is little better than a slave to the man who never soils his feet. All I can say is if a man is fool enough to rest satisfied with this system I am not. I regret to hear that a, girl of Mr Hamlyn’s has died suddenly of convulsions. Things are looking very premising- now after the warm rain.