King Country Chronicle Wednesday, March 6th, 1912. AN URGENT NECESSITY.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 445, 6 March 1912, Page 4

King Country Chronicle Wednesday, March 6th, 1912. AN URGENT NECESSITY.

A matter of the most urgent importance is brought into prominence once more as a result of tho visit of the chairman of directors of Te Kuiti dairy factory to Tangitu. An arrangement lias been colored into by the Tangilu seifiora to supply cream toTe Kuiti dairy factory. It is estimated that, at least t-oo cows will be milked for (hip iuirpc.se in the block during next reason. The settlers have the grass arid cows, and are in a position to £o steadily ahead and prosper, providing this arrangement can be reasonably cairiod out. Several happenings, of course, could close -this avenue to prosperity, chief among them being tho collapse of the butter industry in general, and the failure of the authorities to provide a means of access to the railway at Waimiha. The first .incut iem d ('actor can safely he left mil. of (hi consideration, as is beyond the nower nf the settlers or tlu> author;! ies to control. The providing of a m-eent road, however, comes within quite another category, ami 0.1 l things commie: ed the settlers have a very well founded claim upon the Government m rite matter of the road. As we have pi ev musly pointed out tho Tsngitu settlers were placed on the hind under certain conditions which have been faithfully carried out by the Government. The Bettlerß On their part 'rave also adhered to their contract, ami have brought their sections to producing point. The time has now arrived for the settlers to assume the responsibility of providing for themselves. This they are quite ready to do, and the channel has hecn provided by the starting of the dairy industry. Unfortunately they are faced with the problem of getting their produce to thu railway over a road which is at all times impassable for vehicular traffic. Unless tho road is made passable it will be impossible for settlers to undertake dairying, if they do not undertake dairym;: they have no means of GXistcnee. On tin face, of it, therefore, a scheme of land settlement wllich haß been tho dream of all democratic governments, and which in this instance has hitherto boon eminently successful, is in imminent danger of becoming a lamentable failure. The duty of (ho Government is obvious and we trust the efforts which are now being ms.de to induce the ties- to immediately construct the road in question will meet with the buccbsb they deserve, Time is a highly important factor m the case, as if the road is not made passable before next spring the tu mfit of the season will he lost. No more urgent case has ever been dealt, with by the authorities. in the interests of the district; in the interest:- of settlement; and in the interests of the Dominion as a whole the work should be undertaken without delay.