TENUI.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1372, 7 May 1883, Page 2

TENUI.

(PROM OUR OWN'CORRESPONUENT.)

The weather during the past month has been unusually wet, and the whole of the low-lying country is more or less under water. We scarcely remember ever having experienced so early a winter, the difference between April 1882, and April 1883 being very marked in that respect. . Loud and bitter are the complaints about the state of the school playgroiind, and with good reason. too, .to judge from my own. observations oil Friday last,' I noticed that for a distance of about half a chaia on the south side of

the building, a large sheet of water / extended, while,on : tlie east side, where '"'" 1 / there liaa been built a lean-to, for the ' / children attending the school to hang 7 their saddles in, stretches a sea of /,. ■• liquid mud, which for .quality and 'p consistency would put- to shame the I streets of a populous city, after a week L of wet weather. At the front entrance gate I observed . two.. for I can call them by' 'no milder' tirm/ extending from the - front gate to th/ house, and in the direct line ofroad j and from .the front door. I thought/ myself what can the school commit/

be about to allow such a exist where so many children' are ft- ■ '■ • stantly moving about, and.what k. be the state of mind of the • sjool master'smfe who.has totrudge.thpgh it at all hours at tho ■■ risk of..w#set and subsequent, coldsl Such a sfeof, things is a disgrace to any compryvH and more especially to a scho/ committee, who are supposed to hk the welfare of the children at heav'Had precautions, in' the shape, (a few;. loads of gravel, which I uderstanci I is easily, obtainable,;' earlier, when the roads/ere dry, ; much of this misery and.a.isoontent would have been avoided they have been waiting f see if the;.| schoolmaster, out of his - Urdly earnel'! pittance, would relievelhem of the trouble and employing labor to do it.—lt is Wold saying—- " Every man for himsfVand the'old boy'for us all." / We have had a vii> from; the Eot. Father Halbwachs,'/ Masterton, who, conducted service Jin the 'Catholic}'' . Chapel here last snday. I/cannot ; understand why ye are troubledVso ' ; ' little by Ministerjof other denomina- ; tions; perhaps tfey imagine we are' •■ beyond all help, M that it is no use troubling about k. Since the depar- . tureofthe EeV Mr Dukes this dis-'.; trict has been eitirely neglected; that gentleman woild at least keep his word when he promsed tocome,which,lam .'/ sorry to say, i not the case with those ' who visit us iow. One gentleman, in particular, was to have held service y§' hero on Simlay, and there was quite a ' number of/people turned up for the service, sorie persons coming a distance of twenty miles, but there was no sigh' '• of our cjbrgyman coming, and after waiting ai hour (in which time our reverend' friend was not spoken very!!,; kindly of) they departed for their "> respeefcire homes. There would havebeen some excuse for his not coming ■/' had the weather been bad, but 0:1 the contrarj it was quite a fine day. T hopo I shall not have to speak of this again, and that we shall soon have to record a ; visit from some of the Masterton clergy, otherwise, I am afraid we shall been too far gone to reform.