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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4712, 7 May 1894, Page 2

The Masterton Town Lands Truseea have taken over that white elephant, the Drill Ball, and we trust the; may be able to convert it into'a profitable institution, This may not be so easy a task-as some people suppose as the properly is loaded with a fairly heavy ground rent, and unless it is lettable in its present state at fifty pounds a year or in an improved condition .at a etill higher rental, it will not from a business pointo! View be a good investment, Still the building hasitsoses, and for some years to come it could be ill spared in this town. It was only on this ground that we advocated Hb puroiiase by the Town Lands Trust and we are pleased to ntitice tliat the transfer of the propp|ty meets with general approval, .

The nonsense talked N about the unemployed now-a-dayß is very ' siokening. Our Woodville contempotaty reports that tbe Hawke's Bay land holdfiiH have combined not to engage men during tho coming' winter. Hffhas made enquiries into the truth of the report, but oan find no evidence in support of it. Yet he deliberately spreads a oalumny which from his own admission he Imb reason to believe to be untrue. This is Liberalism with a vengeanoe, It i 8 the fashion now-a-days to run down "social p.sta," but for the sake of the unemployed we wish there were more of them, Some years-ago there wbb a hooting and a yelling because one o( them took up three or four thousand acres of rough land in this district. Mr Hogg, M,H.R.,waB the huntsman and on the strength of tbe popular outcry, won his seat in the House. But what was it that the social pest did do, and where was bis crime 1 He bought a block of rough country, a haunt of scabby sheep, which but for him, would to-day b,ave been useless' forest, and before he earned a single penny off it, ha spent ten thousand pounds in labour on it. Tbe Government and Mr -Hogg.t M.HK.,have killed the enterprising men in New. Zealand", who once spent tens of thousands of pounds in labour, and we put it toany sensible person in the community whether in so doing they uave'notbecn unmitigated fools, and whether they have not been also the cruel enemies of the working man.