OPABAU FEBRY PUNT.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 297, 15 February 1907, Page 2

OPABAU FEBRY PUNT.

(TO tkb editor.) Sir,—lt is now a long time since tbiii district was settled. We wore promised roads and bridges by the Go* vernment then in power, and we all know bow these promises were kept. Let us now give the Government in power no pence until the promises ot the Seddon Government are fulfilled. The Oparau punt is a disgrace to any raoe ot civilised beings—a slow, oumberous affair, a relic (from an engineer’s point ot view) of an age long gone past. We mast have a bridge at Oparau crossing, and if we meekly al - low this Government to neglect our pressing needs they will do so, but it we keep reminding them that we are the true empire builders of New Zea land, and that we intend to let them know our united power at election I,me if they don’t listen, they will then do what we ask. To get a bridge at Oparau Ferry and a road made to Kawhia we must send in a petition from settlors. It will not bo long when the road from the Ferry to Kawbia will be used by those travelling by the branch roads leading to the Ferry, and it is of the utmost importance to the town of Kawhia that this road and bridge be got into working order without delay. Where are the borrowed millions which we, the toilers of the back blocks, pay interest on ? They are used principally to enrich the towns, we being treated by the powers that be as outcasts ot the bush. Are we to be meekly trodden on in this way ? Let us one and all rise to the occasion and let the authorities know that we will not be treated unfairly any longer. Without the aid of the Government our task is made almost unbearable, but if wo bad roads and bridges what a change.—Yours, etc , BAOKBLOCKhR.