THE CAMBRIDGE AND TAUPO ROAD.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 547, 20 November 1875, Page 3

T HE CAMBRIDGE AND TAUPO ROAD.

iSiNCE the publication of our Auckland itelegrama of Wednesday, announcing the >result of thfe 'waiting of the deputation «on the Colonial Secretary *to urge upon 'the Government the importance of making ■a ! road from Cambridge to (Tawpo, we/ Jlearn from the Auckland papers that there .are no engineering difficulties whatever iin the way of the .undertaking, and that tall opposition to the Qpening up the counttry on the part of the Ngatiraukntra itribe has been withdrawn, and tlrat "the iroadi^wili traverse land either owned 'by the Government or being negotiated Jfor some thirty miles of its length. Dr Pollen's reply, it «oeras, amounts to a con«ditional promise. He had had no official >of the fact stated by Mr xFirth that the Ngatiraukaira natives had their opposition to the road, Hbut he would at once x,ommunicate witli -Major Mair, and if it -were so he could {promise th«m that the Government would .use their endeavours to accede -to , tlieir (request and get the road made as far as ithe Niho-o-te Kiore bridge. We have little doubt but that Mr Firth >spoke authoritatively 'in 'the matter of the mative feeling, and from the<fact thsrt Mr (F Whitaker and Mr Morrin are associated •with J\im in urging the undertaking upon ?the Government, that it will not be • allowed to drqp. It's importance to .the "Wftik^bp generally can scarcely be over-<eBtimalfe<l&vhile,-polifcically and financially, dt is to td>ej£kriVevnment a matter also of •no little«"fjment. The opening up of a = large of valuable , land to settle--nient towarcw -the centre of the* island, :not only wouks out the «elution (>f the :great Nothern difficulty, but -wll add considerably towards -feeding the traffic oh »the railroad now being extended to Hatnilttoii. Another and a \eny great .benefit vwhich will be derived by this clistrict from tthe opening of the road will be the • divecupn of the traffic to the Hot Springs -at Kotorua from the East Coast lines •through Waikato. When Quiet's coaches «can run right through from Mercer, Ngaruawahia, or Hamilton as the case >ma,y be, to .the Springs, visitors will ,prefer coming through direct -from Auckland rinstead of encountering the sea voyage to Tauranga «nd,proceeding thence byvcoach. .Last summer there were no-less than 167 ,passengers passed" through a« far as the < coaches went, performing the remainder ♦of the -journey on 'horseback, 'but this .number would have been largely increased «could they have been coached through <direct,after leaving the railway terminus. WheiAonce this-road is completed we may • expect to see a line of coaches put on 'between this .settlement and the Hot .Springs. The advantage to the district •will not altogeter-be confined in such case »to the outlay and expenditure caused by the traffic, but there >is to be taken into .account the benefit to the district to be •derived from inducing visitors from other IProvin ces and Colonies to pass through the Waikato already rendered (interesting. *by its historic aasooiaiions. There could »be no better means than* this devised 'for 'making the district and its capabilities.for : settlement known in «the other Colonies .and Provinces.