Government Neglect.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 237, 1 December 1905, Page 2

Government Neglect.

KAWHIA COUNTY COUNCIL I At the ; meeting ot, ■ the Ke whis; Council lael week", "The Chairman (Cr r ,W.<i tome atrongr com*mejrtß , with wh'uA "thtf"t)bpaTttneuts trtateti every ’ communication that had been sent 'from tbe Confacil. was utterly useless meeting every month if the ’ Council be itouared. Or Bubbact’ endowed 4Ke Chairman’s remarks, and nioyeddhe following resolution “ That tlte Premier, hetobTun?united with, asking if is any reason yvhy Council sfionif be neglected in tho nljiunea in which it has been for the' monitor? Letters sent by this Coum»l’*to tfae Govern-mcnt Departments in 'tiotn Auckland and Wellington have not been replied tb. Tbe CJounbd bnve written to the Chief Commissioner of O«9»n Lands aeking for plans Coenable them to make recommeudations for the expenditure of thirds and about a supposed rbad through native land leading to the Karawa townships to which thtgr have iJeebived nb reply. Applications have been made to Wellington for'ToKM under the <SBoou3l Bodies Act $ reply was received ■asking for more information. That information was sent 'on October 14rh last, and up to this date (November no reply has yet been received. The ApfoKcktiin'tor mu hi Cation* Iras befen deferred. Application for the power* of a Harbour Board has been made and tho Mfriister has promised Jo consider J,he Walter ; tMs also Seems io be deferred. There was also application made for an adjustment of the sotrt*!/-' ern boundary, the Awakiuo settlera and those proposed to be transferred to the<Kawhia County being both ankioua that it should be done. The Government have also ignored the application frona\t|us CpunoiJ. for votes on tbe roads most required. The aoutharp of the county has.no outlet, the difficulty of getting the Btook out or in being almost iusuper Bible. These settlors want 4<n outlet to the railway at'Haugafiki. The Engineer of rpads in charge of the district certainly cannot know as wed as the settlcrq, which roads, ar? the most requiridb < J tl» eipefidittfre up to the present in the Kinohakn disaefoe thou- 1 sands of pounds been expended in‘ the middle of the bosh with no outlet to pldi* t >'i*«iy the work £ui'bg_oii at present will let theku "in to T^‘Kilter. I The settlers ■do not want tbarrciad . thsy want to got to Hangahki, tbe nearest joint on tbe railway.” Toe ’motion was seconded by Or H. Rhawj aud carried uasmtaQQiiyq t