UPPER TARARU.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 44, 27 November 1871, Page 2

UPPER TARARU.

.V meeting of miner's, traders, and others interested in opening up the Upper Tararu district is convened for to-morrow (Tuesday) evening at the Governor Rowen Hotel. AVe understand that a series of resolutions will be submitted for adoption, urging the necessity of a road being formed by which machinery and supplies of all kinds can be sent to and from the claims at something less than the present almost ruinous cost of transit. AVelldefined and payable reefs are known to exist in the locality, and it is chiefly from the want of means of communication that the progress of this portion of the field has been so slow. Xear the Andean lease commences the existing track along the main spur to Coromandel, and throughout the entire distance there is every reason to believe that gold, more or less, will be found. The formation of a passable road-from the beach at Tararu to the top of the range would be a commencement of a line which will eventually have to be made throughout, The Superintendent and

•“AT ! - -4 tbp Secretary have been waited, upon ou : 7 several occasions on :tiijs subject-,and have promised assistance [spjfar is lav in .then- power. Now that tlie Provincial Council is in session seems a fav(«rable*oppnrlunity for urging upon the Goldfields members and the Executive. as well as upon the House generally. the claim which this portion of the Field has for assistance in the matter of road making. The public will have an opportunity of judging of the merits of the question by facts to be laid before them at the meeting tomorrow. We hope to see a large attendance, as this is a matter of considerable interest to all persons connected with the Field. The Upper Tararu district has never yet been properly prospected, and until something more is done in the way of making tracks and roads, it never will be. To do this thoroughly would, of course cost far more money than is likely to be obtained at present, but something may he done by way of making a start, ami as the'district progresses, the returns would in all probability warrant additional outlay. The great advantages and economy resulting from doing as much road work as possible during the summer months, is obvious to all who konw what a New Zealand winter in the hush is, and the sooner the matter is attended to the hotter. The increase in the yield of gold which has taken place during the last six months warrants the belief that the more ground that is prospected and worked in the district the' larger will he the return. There is a great area of country between the Upper Tararu and Manaia,which has been very inadequately prospected as yet. The making of a passable road from the beach to the top of the range would he a most desirable beginning towards opening up a large area of auriferous country, for the most lying idle and unproductive, and in which there are no “ native difficulties” to he overcome so far as we know. All who have the interest of the field at heart will do well to be present at tomorrow evening’s meeting.