Makaraka Notes.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 472, 26 June 1890, Page 3

Makaraka Notes.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) I TOO MANY HOTELS. ■ Thanks to the action of the Licenain® Committee we shall soon have three license® houses in the District—the old Royal Oa® Hotel, Matawhero, being about to start new management. No one can say that these houses are a necessity ; it must appear that their existence harmful to the best interests of all It is no use burking the fact, the presell Licensing Act as administered is HI solemn farce, and it is to be hoped that will ere long be expunged from the Book of this much governed little From the nature of things it would that Resident Magistrates are qualified than Licensing Committees to licenses. They, at least, would know experience the evil effects of an nate issue of new licenses. |||g AN INSTITUTION THAT IS A BOON. We now turn to an institution which real help and boon to the small dairy of the district. We refer to the Cheese Factory. This concern is boomißß ! along in a quiet unpretentious way, turning out a sample of cheese which already secured a favorable verdict at hands of the trade in London. |||| A NEW BUTCHERY. Anew butchery business has been in Longley’s old premises, Matawhero, I® Healey and Co. H BENEFIT OF THE FREEZING WORKS. B One benefit of the establishment of thß Gisborne Fxeezing Works is already apparent in the better prices ruling for sheep. If the management continues Lessing beef owners of store cattle will be made happier. Local consumers, however, will have to pay more for their beef and mutton. A PROPOSED LITERARY SOCIETY. There are rumours afloat that steps are about to be taken to organise a Makarakian Literary and Debating Society. If it eventuates thoughtful people will wish it every success. These and kindred societies, I am familiar, have been too conservative in their aims, striving to form little intellectual and social coteries of the select few, who were elected by ballot. In a short time, owing to the creation of tittle jealousies, internecine troubles have followed and the ambitious project has ended in a fizzle. How much better rather for such a society to be all embracing in its aims, to keep open doors and to strive to give intellectual and recreative pabulum to those who need is most, finding for them a substitute for the soul destroying ennui begotten of ignorances, whose only apparent outcomes are larrikinism, horsey talk and drink. EFFECTS OF THE “ GRIPPE. 1 ’ Influenza is still rampant among us, children being especially favorable subjects for the germs to act upon. On enquiring from the authorities of the local school, I find that no fewer than sixty children were absent through illness, and} it was therefore deemed advisable to close the school for another week. A few parents, those I suppose who have not as yet had la grippe in their houses, grumble? this I regard as a very hopeful sign that the present system is appreciated. It is also cogently urged by the aforesaid authorities “ that the school is, under the regulations, entitled to a fortnights holiday at midwinter.”