URUTI.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8140, 23 June 1906, Page 2

URUTI.

( From Our Own Correspondent). Fino weather and hard frosts still continue. Our roads have improved greatly, but some parts arc still in a bad state. Mes'srs Eiley Bros., the mail contractors from Urenui to Awakino, have had to pack tho mails through the' last fortnight, and probably will have to do so for some time to come.

One or two of the Whangamomona sottlors havo been into Uruti to see wJwt the Moki road is like at this end, and to look at the land here. This road will one day bo their principal outlet, and a farm here would be very handy to settlors in that way. I consider it a disgrace to the Roads Department that this rand has not been opened through long ago. There arc settlors on the Moki road on the Whangamomona side who have to wade through mud for forty miles before they reach a metalled road. These settlers are within twenty miles of a metalled road in this direction, but three miles of standing bush bar the way. This is the manner in which some of our back-bloci settlers arc

treated. Evidently there is someone pulling tho ribbons tho Whingaraomnna way, and keeping tho Moki road back at that end, so as to suit their own interests, instead of considering the interests of the community at large. It is scandalous that this sort of thing should be tolerated. It is reported that two more of our settlors have sold their farms, but so far tkis report has not been connrmed. I therefore hesitate to mention any names.

iho work of fascining on the Mimi- , Mokau road is at last completed, and toilis is again open botween horo and Mokau, but still the roads are in a >act state, principally caused by tho heavy traffic in carting fascines over them to the bog-hole. I hope that this will bo a severe lesson to our County Council, and that no more work of this description will bo commenced in the autumn.

Several of our settlers are away at present at tho Palmerston North Wintor Show.

Next month the bacholors give a grand ball, and as invitations arc out to half the country round, it should be a groat success, providing that the weather is not unkind enough to upset tlieir calculations.

I am sorry to have to report that mo of our oldost settlers (Mr G. Oxonham) is on the sick-list in tho New Plymouth hospital, suffering from rheunitics. I wish him a speody recovery.

The news of Mr Seddon's sudden death caused quite a shock hero. Many read tho telegram outside tho office and thought that it was a mistake, but •eahsing it to be true, sincere regret ■vas expressed on all sides