TENUI NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4511, 31 August 1893, Page 2

TENUI NOTES.

(From Our Own Correspondent,)

The Committee of the Sewing Bee handed £sl Us to the Secretary of tho Public Hall, being the profits arising out of the recent sale of work. A valuable suggestion accompanied the gift to the effect that the Trustees of the liall should spend a portion in erecting a fence and gate, and effect--sundry necessary repairs, It is hoped tho suggestion will be adopted as the present state of the building is anything but a oredit to the district,

A public meeting is to be held on Saturday, but the circular does not stale where in Tenui—l presume at tho hoi! or Road Board OHico—to take steps to secure a medical man for the district. Tenui is a large dißtriol, and we liavo to dopend solely on Masterton for surgical skill. Often settlers and station hands find it necessary to call in the dootor, and it is ouly ut great expense that it can bo accomplished, Besides tlie patient runß no small risk at the consequent delay arising through the distance the doctor has to' come. There is the chance, too, of the dootor being 'out' whon he is telegraphed for,andseveral hours may lapse before he ia found. If the case is at all serious, as it is generally bo, settlers do not caro to call him in unless compelled, it is extremely difficult to point out the symptoms, by wiring, and tiw doctor runs the risk of bringing tbe wrong medicine and surgical instruments, If settlers are ill they have either to wait here for the doctor or go to Masterton, a case of " if the Mountain won't come to Mohammed then Mohammed must go to the Mountain." The journey is one fraught with danger and difficulty. This winter several settlers have been taken to Masterton for medical treatment, aud some of them were in a dangerous condition, If a good chemist's shop weroin the district it would be better than nothing at all,

The Tenui bridge again calls for immediate steps being taken either to thoroughly repair it or erect a temporary «pan suitable for pedestrians, It is really disgusting, indecent, and a standing disgrace to those responsible for the delay. Ladies journeying to and from Casdepoint, may, at any moment, bo confronted by a naked man just emerging from the river as he has waded across. The other day two or three men, in primitive dress, were seen running about the banks driving liorsea across,and some females were stopped just in time to avoid the unseemly eight. If some unfortunate swagger is drowned, or the mails lost then perhaps the bridge will be repaired. "Fair play is a jewel!" Itrti^i

my remarks fa football rnatoh Whfiirearoa v. Greytown did not give offence to (lie Greytownites. I really understood what 1 wrote to be from facte. The Secretary of the Grey town Club has'already .explained matters in cne or two papers, and ho doubt his is the correot version.