Te Rau-a-moa.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 327, 23 August 1907, Page 2

Te Rau-a-moa.

(FiOM OUB OWN CORRESPONDEJiff.) Daring he last fortnight there has baou some mild spring weather which has brought with it a growth of g - isa welcome to both sheep and dvry farmer. Sett'ere are hopeful of another good aexsco, bat the opinion m ems that the price of butter fat will uot reach that of last year. As so reany settle a sro obliged to run sheep, the l sapp’j of milk to the factory will not be greater than last year.

Within a radius of tv. 1 miles of the combined factory aud sawmill there is no almost inexhaustible supply of magnificent rima wh ; cb is locked up for want of a metalled road to the harbour. Werp the wheels of this factory kept in motion fcr twelve mon’hs of the year—seven mouths ic the mauufacture of batter and five months cutting timber for export, suppliers might be receiving lOd per lb instead of as at present. Te Riu-a moa enj .ys a good natural posit : ou, but unfortunate. y it is divded and broken asunder throes h one half of the seitlemec' being r .ch ia

different Coonty. ,Th<> boundary - tween the Kawhiannd Waitomo Con 1ties paases through the nxiddie o 'te settlement, aud it hre prac icihy re representatives on either kcai b.-dy. Until Te Paa-a-moa has a voice in the expenditure of pubb'c ureney, so kmg will she be in want. When ths boundaries were under discussion, had all 1 he shareholders of the D? ry C »., and all setters in tbe ne-ghbontbood of Te Raa-a-moa, stood shoulder to shoulder, and do minded to be -'uc’udod iu Che Kawhia County, as all could uot lie long to the Wai to mo Gouaty, her tiuanciaL position would have been very different than it is to day With a metalled road to reader possible tbe cartage of timber, every settle? would be> regarding hia rima in much the same light as the agriculturist yiews his field ot grain—a pot of money when harvested. Last season tbe batter mana f ac k ared by the comp ny realised about £l,lOO, aud it is estlma'ied that the milling plant ia easily caoabie of cutting timber to the sama value. The prosperity of Te Rau-a-moa means much benef t to Kawhia, and with tbe help of the latter tbe main coach road should be metalled before long. But resident of tbe Haataru and Pirongia West Roads c»uuotexpect to get tbe road* metalled uuiii the whole of Te Ria-a-urex is iu one County. It is most unjust, also I tint a road should constitute a boundary line, as is tbe case vrith tbe Hiutara aud Pirongia West Roads. Settlors mast move in the matter and petition for readjustoieut of bounds ries to euablo ‘Lem to good roads —au absoln’e essential to progress.