URUTI.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 182, 13 August 1901, Page 3

URUTI.

(VttOll OTJR own correspondent). A good deal of bush I*B being felled in I the district t,bis season and good prices j are giver,. If the prophets (local, and otherwise) are right and we have an early bot summer, there ought to be better burns tban last sea'on, and a good deal cf last year's clearing should be dry enough to burn again. The woil lor the co-operative factory which is to be built han been sunk and bo far as can be ascertained in this rainy weather there will be permanent water in it. There will have to be something dona in tbe way of metalling before the factory can work successfully I fancy. It is understood the Government is going to do a mi'e and there is a proposal by the settlers to raise a loan of £ISOO if the Government will give a subsidy of £ for £. Three thousand pounds should metal right through to Uruti and perhaps a mile up the Uruti-road and half a mile or more beyond the township towards Tongapurutu. The first thing we want is a metal pit and tben it is easier to get at the probable cost per mile and with this object in view our local membrr on the Couocil had a resolution passed to get the engineer up to look at a warn of gravel said to be 60ft in tbe face and of very good qu»lity in Mr. Oxenham's property. If a practicable road can be made to tbis pit the couocil should take some steps to have it made ax theie would then ba a permanent pit fcr all time and contractors would know better how to put in their tenders, instead of tendering too high, as they are bound to do if they don't know whf-i e they are going to find the metal. Speaking of metal, it seems to be a matter of doubt whether the gravel from the Onaero pit in the Waihi riding is ss good as it should be. There may ba good metal there but the stuff that has been used for patchicg tbe road from TTmnri towards Waitara seems to be composed chiefly of red day. Mn. Crawford, a settler's wife, was unfortunate enough to get lost in the bush while going for tbe cows on Tuesday evsnicg. A search party was •rginited and went out, but ahe made her way over to the coast and got. out herself in the morning. All here felt relieved end glad when they heard she had turned op safely.