CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1135, 26 July 1882, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

WHERE'S THE ROAD.

(To the Editor of the Dahy.)

Deau SIH, —Having for some time been looking for a piece of.land on which I couid make-my home,"!.Was;advised by, a friend to try Pahiatua! Well, the first thing I did was to write and propure a place." After careful' eraminihation 1 1' picked up,,a.section that I thought.would, be suitable to iny requirements, " The' next thing to do was to g9.and see it,'and after wading down a road knee deep in slush, 1 began to look about for.the.road which was to take me where I wartfed w go, but alas, no road could I find. I followed a bush traok for about a mile "When I reached a camp where I »as informed that the track terminated a fewchains further on, and the seotion I wished to reach was about five mileß down'the :river. After another walk of four hours I came to a small whare, the owner* of which told me that had it not been through the aid of a canoe which they had borrowed they would never have got that far, and also to my disgust that.l had jet another mile to go, Determined as I yvaa to get there I plodded on, and at lastreached'tho sectioh .with whioh I was ! niuoh land </was flat, and easily cleared', was the'' road? I could- findnone-'for;the.simplfl, reason that there was 1 rionei' "How i should likft : to'k'rib"w'wbaVbiv'il)zed person' could- Jje. expeote'd to settle there? Would it-not be better fp.r the authorities to take a 'littia these outlying sections, and oben thetoTij!!' ii'a'iii'ihneV suitable^lo 5 bona fide BettleM,y'j>, •} " -"' "' latri&c. i . . Q.E.D....