CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2934, 26 June 1888, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

The County Ranger, (To the Editor). (jib.—l shall be much obliged if you or some other person would kindly insert in the newspaper, where the benefit is to be derived from by becoming a settler in these days. Here we are plaoed in the Bush, with no grass for about two years, and without fences, for we cannot erect them owing to the fires. We struggle along night and day, get a cow or two, and turn them out into tho bush. Of course they Wander about on the road where there are 110 fences for miles through dense forest and level country where they cannot do harm to anything, The County Coun'oil have placed a ranger on the road, to rob us of our hardly earned daily existence, I have managed to get two cows, whioli I thought would give me milk and butter, to help me a little with my family; but I find that those cows,

instead of helping me, are costing more money than would buy the milk and butter. I had to pay five shillings a few days ago to the ranger, fllP st ™ it was five miles to the pound, fhd he therefore wanted five shillings fees. He had not in reality driven them three hundred yards. Again I paid six shillings and sixpence for the ranger driving them to the pound. Besides paying that amount, I had to walk ten miles to bring them' home, losing a day's work. Jf the County Council insists in keeping the ranger on this road, I shall be forced to make them a present of my cows, for I call hardly find sufficient money to maintain my family, let alone supporting a man to ride about the country, when he might be far bettev Waployed. I am a hard-working man myself, and I have six children, whom I keep constantly watching the cows by day; at night they wander, aiid before tlieypp can be found in the morning the: ranger has them in the pound, and there they stand for twenty four hours without being milked. I could always keep a cow or a donkey in the Old Country on the common or side of the road, but here it seems that you cannot keep one in a district,,,..... If you would publish this jtovould feel much obliged. a Yours faithfully, John Moorcock. Hastwell Clearing.

Honor where honor is due. -

(To the Editor),Sir.— I liavo paid one or two visits to the Mastertou Hospital, and, having been a patient in two similar institutions on the continent of EuropiflLt think I may speak with some of confidence as to what t have seen here. 1 have never been in any place that would bo entitled to the claim of being a pattern of cleanliness and neatness so much as the Masterton Hospital is, and if anything in the way of a chance has taken place since the present custodian, Mr Williams lias been in charge it ihas certainly been for the belter, Jjfio three patienls, who came in on The same day, looked, -as far as circumstances wouid allow them, very happy, and had not a word to say against the manner of their treatment, and would apparently have no objection to being kept in the Hospital for the remainder of their natural lives, Knowing how necessary institutions of this kind aie in a district like the Wairarqpn, I shall be glad to learn that the extra day which has been given by the Committee of the Wairarapa Exhibition has resulted in leaving a very substantial margin for .the benefit of the Hospital. *... I am &c., JOHN L, ENQBL.