The Waipa Post. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY FRIDAY, NOVEMBER, 17, 1911 OURSELVES.

Waipa Post, Volume II, Issue 62, 17 November 1911, Page 2

The Waipa Post. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY FRIDAY, NOVEMBER, 17, 1911 OURSELVES.

THE appeararice enlarged : editipjr; of-.to-clay'-' issue of. the "V^Jfß-P v'iii 110.'. dqybt-. be favourably by/ ; alh pur rejfdurs. " Foi some • considerable ija.K-. ,i -'i compelled to iT'i' 1 • * • ich issue a great fi'moL j&'' local arid disi .-.<- hJzrzsl ..this " blocking '.' I :.-. - ■>■>- jtfatdjfcvr- When we .-.-It' our humble venture ■n _iu w .,i}is..ago'it' : was..fur the ■ benefjt iinahcialjy: of both Mm >' ■ -« 'es, and ■fib, Hie great possibilities'' of. our H.rict—for vdvieh Te^4;waunmi, At alwa\s';be ;tlic business we. iiav<?;^ that

lag. Given a proper appreciation of our glorious natural aclvant?.Z:z with the necessary energy to work up to our palpable possibilities, and there is a long and lasting good time ahead for Tc Awamutu. While we cannot all do the pushing, everyone can at least refrain from pulling back, and the man who so occupies himself should be given very short shrift. We have written in this strain before, and have been accused of directing our remarks against the older residents. Nothing has been further from our thoughts or intentions. Amongst our old residents are some of our most valued and valuable citizens men and women of whom any district might be proud, who in the seventies and eighties battled against heart-breaking odds and starvation prices of which the present generation cannot —even if they were inclined —form the faintest conception. More power to them ; and now that the sunshine of better prices and advanced values has come along to brighten the autumn of their well-spent lives we acknowledge them as amongst our best assets, and welcome their opinions—backed as they arc by valuable experience —and would ask that we might hear more of them through the local governing bodies or, better still, through our own columns. We lucky people of Te Awamutu are so fortunately placed and so abundantly endowed that in spite of oursjdyes wo must progress. This

evitable, though to some siderable extent it depends OT ourselves as to what the rate of progress shall be. Given confidence in ourselves, then the fulfilment of our most sanguine hopes is more than half accomplished. To say that Te Awamutu, if she so wishes, may have a population of 3,000 within 10 years may bring a smile or even a sneer to the lips of the unthinking, yet it can even be so if she will but fix her mind upon it. Let us above all things have faith in ourselves and give no quarter to those pessimists who, living on the reputation of what they "have done," have no time to be doing anything notv, except of course faultfinding. We offer no apolog l ies : for these references, for we are" nbt> satisfied that Te Awamutu is yet thoroughly awakened to hen gldrious natural advantages and magnificent possibilities, and .until. we ...are we, shall duty to "way* ''-•■: T' ' 7~ *>■'.*