CASTLE POINT ROAD V. MANGAPAKEHA ROAD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 383, 7 February 1880, Page 2

CASTLE POINT ROAD V. MANGAPAKEHA ROAD.

, ; To tk Editor ofjk Wairawa Daily;'! ■ -•' Sik,—Mr J. BennetV.criticism iou"ffif - letter%roa.dfl.>ti the Castle.Poiiit District; Is an honor I did not anticipate.; .'>l;Hads : .' .that/gentleman. refuted my- arguments £ ? should hav&;felt grateful: to hinr, " object of. my letter waa' simply: to give •'•'ventilatioiviind draw'attention, to a* sub-' : -joet'of interest to the district in whioh ; l ! : resided; I should not have,troubled'you,' ; ;Mr Editor) on this matter ; but for one or 'two statement's in.Mr BerineVsßter'that ■ are apt to mislead the public ilt may be' inferred, from his. letter .that the.rato of ■■' freight from Wellington' to Castle Point is within a fraction of £4 per ton, Mr Bennett, having been charged at that rate on. some lßcwts. of potatoes. Ido not; doubt' the veracity of Mr Bonnet's statement,' but does;'it prove that this is the.usual freight charge to ..Castle Point? If Mr Bennet will tax his memory a little hemay, possibly remember that just a year . ago Messrs Keurick & Co. undertook to deliver goods at Tenui from Wellington at the. rate of £3lss per ton, this amount'to include freight, landing, and haulage. 12 miles. Many_ settlers guaranteed[to support Mr Kenrick, who has since' darned out the arrangements to the satisfaction of his customers. ,1 imagine Mr Bennet did not support this enterprising firm or he would riot'have paid so dearly for his potatoes. 'With jmgard : to -.Mr Beunet's loss of bjue.gum rails, itniaypossibly be the. fault of something else'than Castle Point. Perhaps he thinks accidents never hippen on railway lines. How about the slips on the Eimutaka not long ago ? A number of people did not get' their potatoes, ifcc., then. Doubtless if t Mr Bennet's woolbales or othergoods-liad'beeh delayed on i that occasion, land carriage would have been all that was execrable. I v.,; I do not desire to charge Mr Bennet with inconsistency re the advantages of water carriage. I cannot but recollect that gentleman, together with others, propounding a scheme with a view of forming a. company to get a steamer'to trade into f the Whareama river. Water carriage 'surely could : riot have been such a' "bete noir" to this individual at that time as it.appears to be at present, lam obliged to Mr Bennet for his desire to see me out of tho district, also for his compliment re my limited ideas. Perhaps they are rather narrow. One small and trifling thing, however, occurs to me, i.e., that it may be of eminent utility and benefit to the manager of Larigdale station and its owners to delude or. intimidate (by closing the Black Hill road) the public into making a road to their (Elder & Co. 's) firewood bush at the head of the Mungapakeha. If ,M Bennet wjll condescend to look atjthe ■end of-iiiy last letter (Jan. 17th), he will see that there is no. desire that lie and fad

ne 4feßhould : have no;outlet for their ; ; A i produce fept on sufferance/ ;ih9lJriti ' : i is meant that portion from 1 Angdae.lT Tenui;; DCldge. an"4>sfe;% er , w mentioned%nT6aa:vlikely 'ldstiraulatS production irilfie patriot; W -■ : lOa many persons, andfcrjetdlMf'Bennet was ■■ : ■■■ ?^ •°n^; th ■'■■ . fler^Bern'otis ttyfWa%c' Q uld scarcely •■ ■ h^»gn»lM# % IK it is.auch ,; \. formation ■*' :'. suih.of; money f ; works. likely fequu'efl,isnch|;asbridge AeLerrated^^^ tfity ' 'abpve be even : "still • worthwhile;-to consider the advisability of abandoning:, the present line.;6f -.* ; ' ;v ' ■•' road on the cNorth aidq-; of tlie Murigap'akeha 'the;Pine Saddle' downwards, iubstituting. one in lieu of it pn r ffie-South/c^Sunhy ? Bide. . Apologis'ing:|Eor-taking up so much of: yourvaluable. y space. -, '■ . fam, &c., ' ? i "j '>;-A Eesidbnx.