OUR BACKBLOCKS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 109, 23 November 1908, Page 4

OUR BACKBLOCKS.

To those unacquainted with backblock conditions the oftspoken request of the outback settler for roads may, from its very reiteration, sound a note of monotony. To those, however, who have become familiar with the environment of the and who have noted with the seeing eye and understanding: heart, there is a spontaneous sympathy and an ardent desire to assist in bettering conditions which should never have been allowed to accumulate. . That fine district includeed in the Kirite-here-Marokopa belt is probably the worst positioned in the matter of roads and general facilities for working, of any of our back districts. The natural outlet for the settlers in the- locality would be the sea coast, if a decently accessible harbour existed at Maro-kov-a. Unfortunately such is not the case, and for years to come the outlet for the district must be the Main Trunk ] i 7 5o at I he various points whore the chief roads reach the railway. To Kuiti, itanjratiki ami (■to'.'ohai! : >;a are gradually bec.>aiir,g conn; ; U'd with this fertile hack cow.try aail already a mail service has !■. ; n <'stah!ished through To Kuiii !;> i '• h ii;: :vgg. Kiritohere. and Marokona via. Ngapaonga.

It is to be hoped the township residents will devote every effort towards obtaining for the outback settlers, facilities in the shape of roads, mails and telephone serviecs, which asisst so materially in the development of these districts. The same remarks apply with equal force to our other out back localities, but hitherto the avenues of communication with Kiritehere and Marokopa have received but- small attention. In the interests of a district with great possibilities, the proper development of which will mean much to the Dominion, there is every reason why town and country should co-operate towards a most desirable end.