KAWHIA.

King Country Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 89, 3 July 1908, Page 5

KAWHIA.

(Own Correspondent)

The Premier has been and gone - but his visit was so short that there is not much probability of any great good resulting. He saw nothing of the place as it was long after dark when he arrived here, and he certainly did not promise us anything. The Railway League do not intend to let the matter of a railway to connect Kawhia with the Main Trunk line rest, and a letter is now being drafted setting forth the reasons why we think that such a line should be constructed, and we hope to bring the matter so forcibly before the Government that we will get a trial survey made.

It has rained almost incessantly here this week, arc! docs not >ho\\ any signs of easing off. It has made the back country roads almost impassable in places, and shows the necessity for metalling, hut the seitiers hesitate to raise loans while there are from three to four miles of Native land between their holdings and the harbour ; land which does not contribute one penny towards the rates, and which the Natives are not allowed to deal with. W hen, we wondei, wih the powers that be give the Natives equal rights with, and let him share the burdens of the Pakeha.