NEARLY HALF A MILLION FOR WAIKATO.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 217, 27 August 1887, Page 3

NEARLY HALF A MILLION FOR WAIKATO.

(TO THE ISDITOIV.) Sir,— -Tho question is very frequently asked " What has Mr Whyte done for Waikato?" and when (.ho reply has been made, that lio has regularly attended Pnvlianient, and taken his full share in promoting what he conceived to he wise and good measures, that to his utmost he opposed the had onoi, that during the past eight years he has placed his time and services in and out of session, at the disposal of his constituents, that the CHuee of the poor and rich got the same prompt attention, etc. etc., the questioner will again turn, and s:i} all this is nothing, what has he got for the district? It, is manifestly out of the power of any one, to show what bhaie we have had of the general revenue through the native, defence, education, postal, telegraph, Justice, nnd lands departments, but the subjoined is a rough summary of how £-.182,071 Ims been expended chiefly on the public works done within the Waikato electorate, during the period Mr Whyto has represented it. (This sum is exclusive of subsidies to local bo lies.) These amounts have been compiled mainly from the official icpoit of the iMigiuecr-in-chit'f of I«S«S7. I have confined the summary stiii'tly to the Waikato electorate; although I fairly have claimed votes for opening up lands i 1 Lower Waikato £O,SII, aUo Jb'SCi'.fiOO on Main Trunk Railway, £5'J,5000 To Aroha Thames Railway, and many smailei sums secuied for contiguous districts. Theie me many other bubstuntial ben-fas winch might be enumciaLd. such ns the locdh \^tin^ (!)>' (lambridge Domain Lands about B'JO aeie>;, the Hamilton Dunmin, Cambridge Public Hall and Libiaiy, Te Aroha Hot Springs Domain, &c, S'l\ I hop.-, Sir, that what is hoie -fated will convince the most sceptical that whilst Mr Whyte has so discharged hia public duties as to earn a colonial imputation as a politician ; he has also secured an average expenditure out of loan ot' own* j£ (.W > ,UOO, U 0 0 per annum for the eight \eai-=, which Finely is a fail shaie of the colonial leases and fishes so eageily demanded by expenditure loung constituents : — Cambridge branch railway, t £s<V^7 Wuikato-Te. Arolia lailway, t XHO.'J'Jj ; Morrins-ville-Rotorua railway, £217,050 ; Cam-biidi>e-Tuupo road, £I,Vr>; Cambudg© Rotoiua load, J^U/Jlo; l'o AiohaTauianga rou-1, £oUUU ; CunbridgeTtiuiauga road, £ li)«)() ; Te ArohaPaeioa road, £.MOU ; \Vaitoa, Taupiri, llukanui, Wairungi, Shtiftesbury, Ilaunlton-Te Aroha, Ilamilton-C »mtiridgt 1 , and sundry other roads, £12,ll!l ; Kai.ip'.rw biid^e subsidy, £700 ; Hamilton ti attic biulgc freed, f £0984 : Wiviorougouiui tramway subsidy, £9000 ; Waihou settlers' drains, &c, £750 ; opening up Government lands for sale (Te Aroh.i block), £5321 ; Te Aroha Hot iSjirings Domain subsidy, £1700 ; endowment for Waikato High School, £5000. Total, £482,071. Also, securing and vesting about 70 acres of Cambridge town lauds in. borough council. Also, forming of Waikato Hospital and Charitable Aid District, which the Chairman stated saved the district this year £3500, and secured the board's outlay and Government subsidy of £ for £ being locally spent. — I am, yours &c, Thos. Wells. Cambridge, 16th August, 1887. f Exclusive of votes prior to 1879.