Kapua Settlement.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 288, 27 November 1902, Page 1

Kapua Settlement.

(FROM OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

A settler’s meeting was held on Thursday, 20th inst., to discuss how to spend to the best advantage the £26 voted by the Government for clearing out swamp drain, when the following resolutions were submitted ; —That the settlers be allowed to do the work themselves, to be paid at the rate of 7s per cay. That the Government Engineer be asked to make levels, etc., and to supervise the work gratis. That (be work be proceeded with on receipt of Mr Wither’s reply. That the grass and slips be cleaned out, and to take out curve beside the bridge, etc. That whilst we appreciate the amount voted, we consider it quite inadequate to carry out the necessary improvements. That in view of the Government’s attitude towards us, and the fact that the crops with which we expected to pay our rents have, during the last nine years, been swept away by the floods ; it is resolved, should the floods again threaten to destroy our crops, that every man, woman and child in the settlement shall turn out with pick and shovel and cut a way for it through the main road. That we are cognisant of the fact that the Government is allowing our land to be flooded in order to save the properties of the Railway and Road Departments. That our land can be drained, and we are exasperated at the Government’s apathy and do-nothing policy, so we are determined to do something for ourselves. That any money left out of the £26 be spent in striking a leather medal, to be presented to the Lands Department for their great generosity in doling out a miserable pittance as a palliative for our heavy losses That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the “ Advertiser.”

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