GREATER AWAKINO.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 722, 18 November 1914, Page 2

GREATER AWAKINO.

Sir, —We have heard a good deal of late of the proposed new boundaries between the Kawhia and Awakino Counties. A Commission is being set up to go into the matter and it is to be hoped that the people of southern Kawhial and the Awakino County will give the matter full consideration so that when the matter is settled, the boundaries will include our main roads, and that all the country which is going to m»ke the southern Kawhia harbour will be under one control. In fixing these boundaries we must look ahead, as there is not the least doubt but that the time will arrive when a railway will connect the proposed Pio Pio railway with the southern Kawhia harbour. Under the Bodies Railway Construction Act local bodies have the power to take this matter up, and there is now no necessity to wait, perhaps years, for grants, the ratepayers having the power in their own hands. When freezing works are erected on the southern Kawhia harbour, as undoubtedly they will be, the stock required to keep these works going wll be gathered from Awakino, Mahoenui, Pio Pio, Ohura and the country from there to the Kawhia harbor. Goods, etc., will be landed on the southern Kawhia harbour for as far south as Waitanguru, in fact, with motor traffic much further. We have got nothing in common with the people of northern Kawhia, but the people of southern Kawhiai and the present Awakino County have interests identical. You paople of southern Kawhia no doubt are anxious to build up your side of the harbour by extening the boundaries of the Awakino County right up to the Kawhia harbour you will have us all with vou. The present unimproved value of tho Awakino County exceeds that of ths Kawhia County. Again asking that the people will give this matter full consideration. —I am, etc., JAMES PATTERSON.