SETTLEMENT AND ROADING.

King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 265, 4 June 1910, Page 2

SETTLEMENT AND ROADING.

To the Editor. Sir, —Ten years ago I came to the King Country after succeeding in drawing a section at the ballot with the promise that I should have a road to it within eighteen months. I went in and made about eight miles of a track through the bush and finally got on the section. After putting in three years without a road and killing a few pack-horses I sold out at a loss and came out to civilisation again. Now, Mr Editor, there are a lot of settlers out Rangitoto way, to the east of Te Kuiti and Otorohanga, who are going through the same hardships and losses now. All for the sake of a few hundred pounds that would giva them a good summer road, anyhow, as the country could be very easily and cheaply roaded. If, through the medium of your valuable columns, the state of these unfortunate settlers could be brought under the notice of the powers that be, I feel sure that a different state of affairs would soon exist. I mtt one settler last week who told me he paid 5s Gd for a bag of chaff in town, and it cost him another 7s 6d a bag before he got it home. I write thus feelingly on this matter, Mr Editor, because I have been through it all myself, and it hurts one to see men and women who have the pluck to go into the back-blocks and carve a home for themselves and families out of the bush and then get no assistance in the way of roads, especially when -they are breaking in as fine a country, akjies to the east of the aboven4ntioned places.—l am, etc., 1 r. s. Mcdonald.