WHANGAREI.
Our friends will be glad to learn that a line of way, sixteen miles in length, from the Whangarei Heads to the river Wairoa, which empties itself into the great Kaipara estuary on the West Coast, has been surveyed," iiiid workmen are now busily engaged in forming the road. The chiefs Te Tirarau and Hon Kingi, who own a considerable portion of the land through which the road passes, have generously allowed the Government to proceed wiih its work without compensation, us far as their claims are concerned. There is an old proverb among the Maoris, which says, "How like the acts of the descendants of a Chief." This proverb is eminently applicable in the case ofTeTirarau artdHori Kingi Tallin, and it
C is the more remarkable, because it differs ' from ibe spirit so commonly evinced by their countrymen, who, like the wayside beggar, are ever crying, •• Give, give." The benefits arising from the shipments of farm produce by means of the Whangarei road are justly'estimated by both Maori and Pakeha, wbo, we are happy to state, are busily employed in clearing, excavating, and bridging this needful and important line of way. *
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Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume III, Issue 4, 15 May 1863, Page 3
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193WHANGAREI. Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume III, Issue 4, 15 May 1863, Page 3
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