KORU.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 247, 15 December 1900, Page 2

KORU.

(FROM OUR OWS COiIRESPOSDEST). My rjnwika pibi-hed in your issuj of tho 24th November, ippear'to have "drawn thg U.idg:?," Ai regards Mr. F, Link's I Mor, it. a e-.vcrs itsalf, and I still maintain ti.o qu :r=!.i'-.n— is who is the Roturniaf,' Officer of tha Oakura Rosid Bo.ird ? Th'sre is ar, old saying, s}iiuh d^vibtlc.|!BLjglio has hsftfdj " Vfon you'Ji'avo a weak «se abuse do:|. ha recon-. iiili -pip prcsspfe: writfpg tfith the following e^mi;frd%Me ; |ojaatw ol a raeetfng held on November 14th, 1898, at Koru, pr---pw.d by 5Tr. Mi-K.dfttl fteeoodod by St»* f. L n'i', '• Tnas O.iVjijv. Kosd B ~rd take no o'W-vy. steps to h*va a sp. cial rate of £OOO raised for 'ho purpose of metilUngfthtf Koru-Ntw P ymouth roads, the to start-at Hm where dividing Sine between section and 33 strikes the Koru Epao'ft and to ba carried up after Coffins: M*.-Beetle's bolße.* TLiia resolution was carried at geiiSfal ! ' bigeliirig' i 6f {fijf VatdpayerliUm tho Koru-Plymouth Road. By quo #/ajspill MrtJifele-'igivo tho date wnfh %erlm<:io tho cfablaration required by fh?, Jtyjiare ousting upon liiVduEios;? j

Tho Road Board having d.ciuod to expend the £IOO grant, d by tho Government, £SO at each end <.f tohj» prefect, me£al n tiio yesidegts at upper end of tho Plymouth lioad|iave petitioned the Government to have tTie mqney expended in accordance with the terms on which the special lean was falsedj to quoto.ir<jm the voting papers To form andmetal the KoruPlymouth Roads in two sections, as follows ; 16, block 2, Wairau, S.D, (2) —Commencing at south-western boundary of seqtbn/S3,yU(Mk .2, Wnirau, S.D., and maisifgstl/efj£<yu|anfl jPly&outh Roads continuously in a south-easterly direc- j tion." This petition has boen sent to J tho Government and contained twelve i signatures others would have] signed but were not get-at-able at the] time the - wag sent round for signature, • Mr. and Mrs. Meredith met with an accidoht when returning from town on Saturday last. The horso thoy were driving attemp'od to turn down the Plymouth Road. Mr. Meredith pulled him quickly towards tho niain road when he swerved round overturning the trap on a mound of earth by the road-side, Mr. Fred Morris | (junior), who was at work near, ! hurried to the spot and rendered every assistance, Mr. Morudith was unconscious, and Mrs. Meredith badly cut about the faoo. Messrs. Grompton and Good were soon at hand, doing all that could be done. Mr. Meredith was lifted into Mr. Morris' bullook dray and at once taken home, but did not vccovor C3Esciousß6rs for some time. Though both wore vary much shaken and bruised, no bono? wera broken, land they are on the high roid to recovery, and gare sincerelySJthxnkful to all who so kindly assisted them. Thhoj S3 was quite uninjured, and comparatively little damaga done to the trop. i s^^==!H!;s