THE MAEREWHENUA TRACK.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 147, 22 December 1871, Page 3

THE MAEREWHENUA TRACK.

• The following petition, urging upon the (xovernment the necessity of their immediately proceeding with the con-, struction of the bridle track between this place and'the Maerewhenua Diggings, for which the sum sf £1.50 was voted by the Provincial Council during its last session, is, we. understand, in c rculation both in this place and Maerewhenua, and will, no doubt, be extensively* if not unanimously signed: To his Honor the Superintendent of Otago and Executive Council. The Memorial of the undersigned miners and others resident within the Mount Ida and Maerewhenua Goldfiefds .['; Humbly sheweth—

That your memorialists fully recognise the great advantages which the opening up of an available bridle track between these Goldfields would confer upon both communities. 'I hat the track (if it can be so called) at present in use is at any time quite insufficient, and for many months of the year wholly impassable. That your memorialists are aware of the fact of £J 50 (to be taken in land) having been vot ;d during the last session of the Provincial Council, for the purpose of constructing a bridle track between Naseby and Maerewhenua. That the present is the season of the year best adapted for economical road making. Your memorialists therefore pray that your Honor will take immediate action in this matter, by causing tenders to be called for from persons willing to contract for the work—stating the localities from which land in payment for the construction of the work could be selected. And your memorialists, Ac.