THE MANGATAINOKE SPECIAL SETTLEMENT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2079, 27 August 1885, Page 2

THE MANGATAINOKE SPECIAL SETTLEMENT.

$0 the Editor, sir,—As there appears tq bo a slight misconception re the Mastertan-ftfanga-tainoko Special Settlement Association, a few words of explanation may put matters in a clearer light before the public.

In the first place, it will be remembered the majority of bona fide settlers withitoey fjfojij the Maaterton-Mangahao AssdciatipHi i«%y IjaiJ r 'P faijji in tjij Beese-cum, Hoge-cuni, Gjrdwood clique. They were men who calculated chances before investing tlioiv money, and thoy cuuld not afford to lose their all in a concorn run by the gentlemen above referred to, The result has been that the Maaterton-Mangahao Association cannot' get the requisite number of even if they difj the' Association, ap aMas-' teffcon ooncern w a thorough' failure ; but the aecedere are not to'blame for this, - If the present oommitteo resigned • tomorrow and tried .and capable (I mean from a settler's point of view) men 'were uominated in its place, there \rouM ; be no lack of membora ready to-come forward and pay their calls.' The new Association avoided fclje mistake made by the Gordon settlement people, for while the promise of land in the Mangatainoke has been distinctly given to' the Mastorton-Manga-tainoke Settlement Association it'is as

distinctly understood that the terms upon which it raayba taken up are subject to the action of Parliament during the present session ;.ftnd I may add. that tli'e terms will be more favourable to special settlers than they have been heretofore. I see your contemporary wents the land adjacent to Masterton shut out from the young men of the district, and the ■ way lie purposes accomplishing this is by advisim? the Government to put a prohibitive price npou the land, which is admitted by Mr Ballapce to be fairly the birthright of the sons of our early settlers. Perhaps the settlers will give him a Poland for his Oliver, when a suitable time coihes. It is somewhat unmanly to try and coerce people Into joining his pet association by trying to' gull them into believing that if they do not choose to submit to the Government of the precious triumvirate above alluded to, and join their Association they will not get any land at all. Does anyone believe that the Hon Mr Ballance would allow himself to be governed by those three bom Mi (sic) settlers. I am, &c., •• New Zbalander.