OKAHUKURA STATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 70, 27 June 1916, Page 8

OKAHUKURA STATION.

SETTLERS WANT AN OFFICER IN CHARGE. At a meeting held at Maticrc on June 22nd of representatives from Ohura, Matiorc, Nihoniho and Otangiwai and surrounding districts, the following resolution was unanimously carried:—"That this meeting strongly protests against trie' attitude of the Government in not plaeing a responsible officer in charge of the Okahukura goods shed so that all consignments might be properly delivered and signed for and the present serious loss by theft or otherwise, to the struggling settler bo checked—a loss amounting even within the last six months to a very sum; and that this meeting further emphatically asserts that such an appointment would have the direct effect of increasing the goods traffic to Okahukura by fully 25 per cent." A further resolution was also unanimously carried:—"That in the event of the Government's refusal to entertain the appointment of a stationmaster at Okahukura (the outlet of 50 miles of main road 1 ) then the settlers and others in the district, rather than continue to suffer under existing disadvantages, are agreeable to have all ■roods consigned to Okahukura taxed up to such an amount as would meet the additional expense necessarily occasioned by such an appointment."