THE REGISTRATION DISTRICT.

King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 214, 6 December 1909, Page 2

THE REGISTRATION DISTRICT.

THE person or persons responsible for defining the boundaries of the Registration Districts of the King Country for the purpose of births, marriages and deaths could have had no personal acquaintance of the district, and the result is fruitful of much inconvenience to residents. At various times representations have been made to the proper authorities with a view to having the boundaries altered but without avail. We are perfectly aware that a desire for change is not always dictated by the most reasonable and worthy motives and the powers that be are wise in not being moved to hasty ; action even in purely local matters. • Still it would be an extremely wise i and easy matter for the Minister in charge to obtain a report on the sub- ; ject from some qualified person who : understood the district. There is no 1 possible doubt as to what the report would be. A glance atamapolthc district discloses a state of thingwhich can only be equalled in the realms of comic opera. On the Wes- | tern side the boundary lire cut:; I through a portion of the Mairoa dis- ! trict and traverses the Oparure settle- | ment. Thus we have the fact that ■settlers just beyond Oparure, little ] j more than four miles from Te Kuiti i 1 have to undertake a fifty mile journey : ! byroad to Kawhia in order to rrgi. tor. j A suitable boundary on the West would ■ 'be the Waitomo County boundary, 'ie : the South and South-We.-'. '!:■:■ : c;:i I tion is almost .':.- i.-r-.-:. ;uo:.e j:.".ary ' as it exists at pr> - ; < :.'. <.::•■'::: ':■ :- T: ■; :■'■. Paemako and Mangaoiahi. bn-'nuct-which are all much r ; r :•.:•<-:- to 7- Xuui than to Mokau Heads, the distance to Te Kuiti being from ?bit•-.■<■:-. to twenty miles while to Mokau a journey ci doublethedistar.ee has to !;■•"■ undertaken to reach the registrar. To the South the Aria district is euclvX-; a:. : the same remarks may be anrlis : the position of that 'locality. V. yd. extending settlement and a ran:.; increase of population much inconvenience is being caused by the failure e. the authorities to have tin reasonably allocated. dottier.- ::.:...•- quainted with the j.ecuiiar ':■■. u:. ■::.::. : ; naturally conclude tha ; the :■.■ ■:•.;•. s' and most convenient centre- a- t i; o nrcf:"r !;i;n-c to register and u.auy :rt:;t-