THE TEAWAMUTU EXODUS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2781, 10 May 1890, Page 2

THE TEAWAMUTU EXODUS.

There has been somewhat of au exodus from Te Awamutu lately. Some of the best and most enterprising farmers and townspeople at that place Imvo removed to other parts of Waikato and the North Island, while some have gone to other places in the colony, and others talk of going to Australia. As your readers are doubtless aware Dr Pairman the much respected and genial medico of these parts has left the district for Lyttleton and the want of a doctor to fill his place is a serious question. Colonel Smith, the late head master of the Te Awamutu School, has gone to Huntly, he has been succeeded by Mr Kees, who bids fair to worthily fill the jolly colonel's place. 'Mr Robert Roche your late worthy correspondent who has rilled no small niche in the temple of local worthies and whose name has become as familiar as household words iu Waikato is about to remove to another part of the colony. I am sorry to have to add to the above list the names of Messrs Westney and Compston. These gentlemen are in the words of the song, about to go

To linn's (ar distant And with strangers make their homos. They have proved themselves good settlers and are a decided loss to the community. I do not. of course, wish to be a bird of ill omen, or to play the part of an alarmist, but it is a regrettable fact that the farmers here, as elsewhere in New Zealand—especially the crop farmers—have had a bad time of it lately. Cropping it must be admitted has not paid of late years. I shall not go fully into the reasons which have produced this state of affairs, but may remark, and the remark has no application to the gentlemen referred to above, that big mortgages, bad railway management, and a want of Yankee quickness t-> know and shrewdness toseixe golden chances, are in a great measure at the bottom of the matter.—(Own Correspondent).