THE TAURANGA HIGHWAY DISTRICT.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume IV, Issue 333, 17 November 1875, Page 3

THE TAURANGA HIGHWAY DISTRICT.

The boundaries of the above district have been altered and amended by public notification in the Provincial Government Gazette of the 12th instant. The amended boundaries are as follows: — Commencing at the mouth of the Wairoa River. Bounded towards the north by high water mark of the harbour of Tauranga ; towards the east by high water mark of the harbour of Tauranga aforesaid and the centre of the Waimapu River which forms the eastern boundary of the parish of Te Papa, to the south-eastern angle of said parish ; to> wards the south by the southern boundary of the parish of Te Papa aforesaid to the ceo ire of the Mangapapa Biter at its south-western angle 5 and towards the west by the centre of the Mangapapa and Wairoa rivers aforesaid which form the western boundary of the pariih of Te Papa aforesaid to the harbour of Tau« ranga first montioned the place of commence* merit. Exclusive of all that portion of the Town of Tauranga, situate to the north of the centre of the road which forms the rjorthrastern boundary of allotments No 506, 50/,, 509, 511, 514, and 517, of section Wo- 2, and blocta No. 20 and 30 O? the Church Minion lacd.

OUR OrOTIKI BUDGET, “ Daniel where art thou?” On, Mr Editor, how my heart bleeds at the contemplation of the innocent suffering with the guilty; how I deplore the cruel and stern necessity which compels me to pitch into that honorable member of society, the master of the Eowena, and'“be is the master,” let me impress this important feature of the case upon your mind, Mr Editor, “he is the master, and not Litchfield.” But, oh, Daniel, being vs our letters ; abuse us as much as you like, pour forth the overflowing vials of your indignant wrath upon our devoted heads, hut bring us our letters; look down upon us from the lofty eminence of your hurricane deck and grant us so much pity. And now Dan for a little friendly advice; don’t dabble in literature, and don’t be slating Litchfield for my sins; if you once start quill-driving Dan, you’ll regret it; you’ll find it harder than (Diving the Eowena through the surf on the Ohiwa bar; you’ll lose your bearings; you’ll get into such deep water that if you get soundings at all you’ll find only a muddy bottom; you’ll dirty your hands at it Dan, Stockholm tar will be nothing to it; you’ll find more shoals than most harbours contain, and more rocks than there are round the “ Hole in the wall.” You just hang on to yonr own particular back-stay, and let us have our growl out. Wo don’t care whether you come to Ohiwa or not, we only want our letters to come. So good-bye old fellow and don’t be cantankerous, but come to Ohiwa next week and we’ll make peace over a “modest quencher.” A meeting of the Eoad Board was held last Friday evening to take into consideration a subject of great importance to the settlement, namely, the granting or- refusing permission to owners of land on both sides of an unmade road to fence across it and hang a swing gate in the middle. Two petitions were read, and the matter was warmly discussed pro and con. The arguments against were that it would be establishing a bad precedent, that it would prevent cattle from reaching unoccupied lands for grazing, prevent their getting to the river to drink, deprive them of the actual grazing contained on unformed roads, and induce numbers of others to apply for similar permission to the obstruction of traffic, and loss to the public at largo. The arguments on the other hand were that the two immediate points at issue did not come under any of these objections, that one of the roads led directly into an impassible swamp and the other into a deep creek, that neither of them was more than 15 chains in length, that new settlors and persons about to fence in and cultivate largo blocks of land ought to have every possible facility granted them consistent with right, and that the Board should assert its own position and not be influenced by any fear of establishing a precedent, but should discuss the merits of every case separately and use its own discretion, always, of course, bearing in mind that whore permission is granted the Board still retain power to order the obstruction to be removed at any time they may deem it advisable. The question being then put to the meeting, the resolution that no such permission be granted under any circumstances was carried by three to two. I am glad to be able to report that a few house-sparrows have made their appearance in Opotiki, and with a most laudable religious zeal have taken up their abode in the church steeple.