A VOICE FROM MARTIN’S BAY.

Evening Star, Issue 3766, 19 March 1875, Page 3

A VOICE FROM MARTIN’S BAY.

To the Editor. SlB, —I should like to ask the Government through your paper if they intend to cut the track down the side of Lake M‘Kerrow, as it is often blowing bo very hard that it is not in the power of any man to take a boat up to the head of the lake, nor yet to take one down the lake from the head, so that that alone will prevent the mails from being delivered regularly at either of the places. Another great drawback is the Greenstone track not being finished. There are notjmore than eight or ten miles of it to finish, and that short distance will take a man with a swag over twelve hours to travel, and then he has to hang on by his hands and feet; while the expenditure of L3OO or L4OO would make a track that would be passable all the year round. The Lake Harris track is not open for any one to travel for more than five months at the very moat. I believe I have travelled both tracks oftener than any other white man in New Zealand, so I think I ought to know it the better. For instance, this year the snow was lying on the Lake Harris track on the 12th January last, and the Greenstone was clear of snow on 4th September, 1874. It is not more than one day’s travel longer, but it is all the longer tramps—the easier on account of the low saddle that is to go over, besides the 6 eat height you have to climb up to Lake arris and down again. The Lake Harris track will never benefit Martin’s Bay or the country; the Greenstone is the main route, and can be made a very easy road for leas than half the money that Lake Harris has cost already. —I am, &c., The Martin’s Bat Mailman. Martin’s Bay, February 25.