TOKOROA SETTLERS.

Putaruru Press, Volume VI, Issue 255, 20 September 1928, Page 4

TOKOROA SETTLERS.

DESIRE RECOGNITION. Motion to Prime Minister At the annual meeting of suppliers to the Tokoroa Co-operative Cheese Factory, Mr. L. J. G. Hamilton brought to the notice of suppliers the efforts which were being supported by the Matamata County Council, the Putaruru Town Board, Putaruru Chamber of Commerce and Tokoroa Progress League, to secure recognition by the Government of the success from a farming point of view which had been made of pumice land in Tokoroa, and also to secure through freights on the Taupo Totara Timber Co.’s light railway. He thought most of those present knew what had been done, and he felt that suppliers, being intimately concerned, should support the efforts being made.

On the motion of Messrs. Hamilton and F. F. Flavell, it was then unanimously decided to forward the following resolution through Mr. F. F. Hockly, M.P., to the Prime Minister. “In view of the proven worth from a farming point of view of Tokoroa land (cheese from the local factory having won the Dominion championship once and the Auckland Provincial championship twice) this annual meeting of suppliers to the Tokoroa Co-operative Cheese Factory urgently requests the Government to subsidise, on the lines of State branch lines, the Taupo Totara Timber Co.'s light railway, to the extent of providing through Government freights and the running of standard rolling stock from Putaruru to the 19 mile peg. In view of the Government’s recognition of pumice land from a settlement point of view, this meeting also brings to the notice of the Government the fact that thousands of acres of unimproved land alongside the line, the capacity of which has already been proved, are available for settlement and could be so used immediately if railway and financial assistance such as is accorded other districts was made available. Attention is also drawn to the facts that: (1) The Government own the first five miles of the T.T.T. Co.’s line; and (2) the Government own a large area of first-class totara bush near Mokai which could bear the cost of any subsidy granted.” The motion was then carried unanimously.

The chairman: Unanimously. You are more agreed upon that evidently than on other matters. (Laughter and hear, hear).