(From our own Correspondent). IMPORTANT PUBLIC MEETINGS. August 9. 1875.

Waikato Times, Volume IX, Issue 504, 12 August 1875, Page 2

(From our own Correspondent). IMPORTANT PUBLIC MEETINGS. August 9. 1875.

A large and influential meeting of settlers wa? held at Messrs J. and C. ViokerV farm, Ngakinepouri, on Tuesday last, for the pur-, pose of taking the necessary preliminary steps towirds the erection of a public budding, to be used as a place of worship, and eventually as a schoolirouso if required. Mr R. lladlield was called to the chair, who in a brief speech, explained the object of their meetings, the disadvantage of having no house of worship in the district, and remarked on thegre.it disadvantage they were laboring under in having no road or co-nraunication to any of the surrounding settlements. He congratulated his fellow settlers on having at last thr iwn oil their apathy and met in such a unanimous manner as they had dene to-day. He looked at it as the first actual ktep towards the progress of the districts, which, up to the present time, wero comparitively unknown. The proceedings were- generally of a cunversitional nature. Mr F Vicktjre, in remarking how necessary it was that a body ot some thirty settlers, with their families, «hou d have some public meeting house for worship, generously offered to< give the laod for a si.c on which the building c mid be erected. Mr Vickers- otfer was thankfully accepted by thoa.* preseut, as the most suitable position to be found in the district. A subscription list was at oni c drawn out, and the handsome sum of thirty one pounds (£3l) subscribed by those present, as also (several utters of l.tbor frjm the settlers in the erection of the building, iha timber is at once to ba procured, and it is expected that in a very shjrt time the Church will be erected, as a goo-l Committee was chosen to tarry out the. work. This, the first part of the business of the meeting having been so satisfactorily disp >sed of, tho next wjs tj consider what steps could be taken towards op-ning the Lower Road from Ngaruawahia to A-lexaudra, via Wluta What*. Messrs Lang, Bnbant, Vickers, an* sever a others took part in '. ne diaou-sion, shewing ho-w the advancement of t ie district; was retarded by the want of a road, und instancing several cisea of intending sett ers not purchasing farms, on account of there bein,' no roa 1, but now settled in more favored parts of the Wukato. The opening of the road between Te Koi and N^ahinepoun, a distinceof tour miles, is most needed, as among some twenty settler- in that 1 >.3alitj, notouehisa p/aot. cable road to or from his ' farm, without trespassing on the lands of his n. ighbours. Eventually a petition wa3 drawn up and signed by those present to the Chairman and Trustees of the Mangapiko Rjad Bjard, asking them at once to opjn this portion of the road so urgently required. A vo>e of rhanks to the Ch-iirn m tertaante I the proceedings The tangi over the la o Miss Turaer is now over at Kaipilu. There wproa lar^e number of natives from Hikuran^i, Moerangi, and liauturu there on Wedn. sday and Thursday last. Old Whitiora has had a rekp3e. His people have carried him orer to Kawhu.