WOOD VILLE

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1532, 12 November 1883, Page 2

WOOD VILLE

(from an occasional correspondent.) This place is quiet, and is, perhaps, for that reason not unlike most other places at the' present time, Our newspaper, which has lately started, relieves the monotony a little, and will no doubt assist in waking up trade and pushing forward public matters. Jt has been, supported liberally and heartily, and the proprietor deservos it for his enterprise.. We hopeto have spring soon, for wo are quite disgusted at bush weather--rain, wind, ISd, storms, one day fine and three awr wet—most discouraging and' disheartening to farmers and every one else. The WoodviUe-Tahoraite Jockey Club are making preparations for a grand meeting on New Yoar's Day, The club has largely increased its number of members and' consequently offers very fair prize money this year. There will be a totalis&tor on tbe course and tho privileges are to be sold by auction. The plant for the Cheeso and Bacon Factory Company (limited) has arrived from home,'fivo acres of ground have been bought, and the timber is on the site. All thesoaro paid for, although only 10s por share has been called up —and all of that even has not been paid—so that when I say there is a balance in the bank, you must admit that we do things properly in Woodville. Tenders are being invited for erecting the railway station at fourteen miles away—so we shall havo the railway close by one of those days, although we hardly take the term "shortly to be opened," which tho department so often makes use of, to mean exactly what it purports. They always tell us the line is "shortly to be opened" to Woodville or Eketahuna, They had far better say" one of these days," as I do. The County suspension movement is being mooted here now, and quite time too. I see our press has had a knock at some of you Wairarapa folk—especially those who crossed the Eimutaka, eh? I can't say how we should look, upon it if we were a county town—tho centre of a county—but I know that as an outlying district the arguments are quito true, and we should bo far better looked after if the Koad Board had the management of County rates. Pahiatua is similarly situated. It lies at a distance from the centre, and its requirements cannot be so thoroughly supplied as they would if tho Eoad Board had tho double rate. But Pahiatua has not yet got a Eoad Board, Poor Pahiatua I Twelve months ago I remember ono of the settlers tolling me with a mo3t sanguine and joyful countenance "We are going to have a Koad Board." It is about time they had one by this time, and as the Wairarapa seems thinking of suspending the Counties Act shortly, it would doubly for the benefit of a local body. TheEevß. Bavin delivered a lecturo on Music last evening with oxamplcs and. illustrations, Wo have a concert to-morrow in aid of the prize fund for the school, Besides these thoro are but few and exciting events to chronicle,