FROM HAMILTON TO THE SEA

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2716, 10 March 1916, Page 8

FROM HAMILTON TO THE SEA

.WAIKATO EIVER-: TfIANSPOK-T. If; • The unriavigable state of the "Waikato >;'S ..-Rivo- for cargo, steamers.,Oias,receivedconsiderable prominence -in. 'the "discus-' ;; -Vsioiis of local bodies south of.'Auckland. '/ during tho past fow mouths, and public opinion is strongly growing that' steps • : should be takon to ■ make water traffic possible from,Haiuilton..to the sea. At nieeting.--bf : tho ' - Kirikiriroa - - -Road' Board i.(reports -the . Auckland .'-'Star"), Mr. J. 'M'Gregor remarked that the present Waikato River Board was somewhat of a misnomer, as the object , that t: -|>ody had in -view-wasroot -the- deepen- , ihg .of the channel for. navigatioa purposes, but to .drain certain swamp i eroas. The AYaikato River .n;as_ one of ; , tho. greatest assets the province< pos- : V;-i Messed, and he could conceive"'of no \ /(greater scheme for .benefiting ..the \pro7 1V .: ducer and th® business^man >at. the- • present time' than • direct -water carriage from Waikato.:to oversea ports. In its present state, the ;river.';\vas'. simpl} ; : a. ;l v . ■ -magnificent-- asset running to ;\yaste. He «.• suggested, and'his suggestion met lyitli general approval, that. ail-: effort' :bb' ■■■. made to have, a hew body constituted, to-be called the' Waikato.River .'Navigation Board, -with the object of liiaking the river navigable.-." ;■ Mr." A. Jf. .'Robertson,'..president of. the Hawke's Bay Fruitgrowers' Associaf tion, received : the . following telegram ; from Mr. . Sputhcotei' Wellington,- on' , Wednesday all ,» -right,.finest fruit ever sent." . This refers, to ,; ; /the first '.shipment fromvHawke's "Bay this season f for export; to Buenqs | >. Aires, South America.'The'consig'n- • ment leaves'.Wellington and consists'" of 5000 cases. ' A father at Porewa, between Himtervillo and Marton, gave two youths fifty acres of land to crop with potatoes this ; - season. The young men; says.-a.-con-to work, planting, mouldf. jng, and digging the whole of the: crop J; .. with the ai'd 'of machinery, 'aiid>th"ey •. have cow sold tlie~"crpp';at £7 per;tpfi. . . As enormous average: of • fifteen^'tons;.'to-the'-acre, ■ these. yoMhs^ilirgroSs the season's .one'rations,' and as they ■ have jJon'e .all the work themselves exiv eept the employment of three men in 1 picking"at'Bd;;'pef bag, they.have.earned quite a little fortune; each.'Wt.b,, Only; a few months of labour.-—. —- '■ : —