EARLY ROTORUA

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 701, 29 November 1933, Page 7

EARLY ROTORUA

CLIPPINGS FROM "THE CHRONICLE." Bept. 4, 1897 Our Te Wlhaiti j correspondent writes as follows under date 1st inst.: There is much sickness amomgst the Nativ.es at Te Whaiti and Ruatahuna. I was awakened by the guns fired at the kainga. This makes the sixth death here during the last feiw weelcs, four of them .beinig children. Several deaths have also oceurred at Ruatahuna lately. The -Natives seem to have no power of resistance now; the mauri is noa, as they say, .and thus Maori nature is outraged, and there is nothing to sustain life. No births have taken place of late to counterbalance death® •and the Native difficulty is rapidly being solved. =» At the last meeting of theTauranga County Council a scheme for a tramlway to be worlced by electricity between Tauranga and Rotorua, and to be constructed by English capitalists, was submiitted for the consideration of the Council by Mr. A. J. Vogan. After a good deal of discussion, the matter was referred ■to a committe to- report on, the gene- 1 ral feeling of the council being that | Ithe sch'eme was feasible, and a matter | of such importance to the district that 8 it deserved ev.ery attention. 5 September 4, 1897. — fThe telephone 8 line is now being completed to Roto- | rua along the railway line from Ma- I maku.