TAPU.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 165, 19 April 1872, Page 3

TAPU.

'from a correspondent )

A public meeting was held at Tapu on Saturday to receive the report ot (he Road Commiitee on the quest ion of the (ram way up the Tapu Creek and to consider whai fiD'iher steps should he taken in tbe matter. A large amount of correspondence to and from the Government was read ; by which it appeared that the Government were continually promising that the work should he done, and yet they took no action in the matter. A sum r.f money sufficient for the work had been voted by the Provlnchd Council, and an offer to lease the tram wav when com-' n'eted, had been made, which would bring in a layge return for the outlay and reader it a profitable undertaking ; yet month after month was allowed to pass in inactivity, to the great detriment of the place. A strong feeling prevailed that the Superintendent wouM assist in forum'ding the vvo'k if lie understood a'l tiie pa-tieu'ars of the case, ns when at Tapu, he promised to do a" lie con'd to promote the p osperity of tiie p'ace, and tins vvou'ii be of special benefit to it. And it would bo difficu't to find in the province another p'ace where the expenditure of a similar amount would give permanent employment to such a large number of men and produce so good a return on the outlay. There are miles of country in'and covered with splendid timber—enough f o supply Lie whole goldfields for some veais—shat in and of no avail in consequence of the mouth of the creek being, for a half a mile, a rugged and impassable gully, which at a moderate expense could be made hito a good road, and tin's the Committee are endeavouring to get done : am 1 tiie place is justly entitled to it, fiomHie large a uounfs that have been paiii to the revenue without anything having been leeeived in return for it.—Wm. Bueklend, Esq., who was present, expressed Id’s opinion that the work was a very necessary one, and ctight to be carried out, and would prove more advantageous than many other wo:us that were contemplated elewiiere. The thanks of tiie ineeiirg were unanimously given to Uni for tlie valuable a.--sitance be had rendered to luc Commiitee

hi their efforts to get the work done. After the matter had been fully discussed, it was decided to send another deputation to the Superintendent, to see if some arrangement could not be made for the ea-'ly commencement of the work and its. speedy completion, so that its advantages might he available before the coming winter sets in,