King Country Chronicle Wednesday, July 29th, 1914. TANGITU ROADING SCHEME

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 690, 29 July 1914, Page 5

King Country Chronicle Wednesday, July 29th, 1914. TANGITU ROADING SCHEME

The Tangitu settlers have at present under consideration a comprehensive scheme for improving the roads of their district, and proposals are now being formulated with a view to raising ths necessary money to carry out the work. It is to be hoped the matter will be taken up Whole-heartedly by th 9 settlers, and that no small considerations will be allowed to hinder the attainment of such a desirable object. As was pointed out some time ago in these columns, the Tangitu district offers the opportunity of promoting a roading scheme on extremely advantageous lines. Settlement throughout the district is practically continuous, and the thirds accruing on the sections will go a long way towards meeting the interest and sinking fund on a loan sufficiently large to metal all the principal roads of the district. The experience of other districs in which Grown settlers are located has proved that the only satisfactory way of utilising the thirds accruing on the sections is by setting them aside for the purpose of meeting interest on a loan for carrying out permanent work. The amount accruing each year in thirds in any district is insufficient to do mere than casual patching work on soft roads, and by expending the money in this manner no permanent good is achieved. In the case of Tangitu the time has arrived when the settler? must have good roads in order to successfully carry out the business oZ farming. The sections are. small and conditions are such that only by dairying can these settlers succeed. Experience has proved that the 6>*t essential r to dairying is good roads, and until these are provided by the efforts of the sPtclers tbems9lV2S there is little chance of material progress being made. The disadvantage of having a bad stretch of main road to the railway is now being overcome, and in order to take full advantage of the opportunity of vehicular traffiic right from the back of the settlement to the railway a comprehensive roading scheme is necessary. With such facilities the lot of the Tangitu settler, instead of being an object lesson in hardship, will compare mora than favourably with that of settlers in much older established districts. In favour of a comprehenesive roading scheme there

is everything to be said. It rests with the settlers to fully consider t're local conditions and frame the project on linss of equity and reason. In this respect they can rely on the ready assistance of the local body officials and by taking the matter in band as once, valuable time will be conserved, and a reasonable start made with the most important work which can be undertaken in any settlement. The good road era in many districts is somewhat slow in dawning. If the happy period arrives quickly at Tangitu there will be much cause to commend the forosight and enterprise of the Battlers.