The Feilding Star. Published daily. SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1894.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 260, 10 March 1894, Page 2

The Feilding Star. Published daily. SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1894.

THE COMING MEETING AT BIRMINGHAM. ♦_ On the subject of the meeting to be held by the settlers at Birmingham on Friday the 16th instant, we feel confident that they are going the right way about it to ensure success in the direction of having the main road through and beyond the settlement completed and made passable. The members for Rangitikei and Palmerston electorates, Messrs Stevens and Pirani respectively, have been invited to be present, and will probably lend their valuable aid to further the wishes of their constituents there. We understand that the main reliance the r r jmoters have, is based on a supposed claim on the Government to fulfil a promise made by the late Air BaUance, when Minister of Lands, to the effect that, co.ting.nt en the purchasers of the lands paying half a crown per acre extra, such money would be expended in opening up the country by a main road. To this claim the Government have a' ready replied to the effect that they have no record of such an arrangement in their offices. It is to be noted that the justice of the application was not questioned. As there appears to be a doubt on the subject, and as it is not impossible that the money received by the imposition of the half a crown per acre, has already been expended in some part of the district in road making, perhaps it would be better to go straight to the point at once, and ask that a special grant be made for the required work. Not only will completing this work benefit the existing settlements, but it will open a way into Crown Lands which must very shortly be ready for occupation. However, we feel assured that the several speakers at the meeting will not fail to point out all the merits of the proposal, and we trust so forcibly as to carry conviction with them.