THE RAGLAN ROAD.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 630, 3 June 1876, Page 3

THE RAGLAN ROAD.

Sib,— Mr T"B Hill, Superintendent of Raglan, write* to the Waikato Times to ask why I failed to go on the Ko Orangi truck to Waipa with him. Mr Hill is oblivious. He astumed charge of the whole affair (to find a road), at ho does of every public matter in the diitrict, from organising " block votei " for member* for the General A»iembl/ »nd Provincial Council to looking for a road. Mr Hill engaged the guides, Messr? Turner »nd trage, but when the guides curne through to Waitetuna on the 24 h January to their great disappointment Mr Hill via* in Auckland. Agnm, when they cavie on tho 3Ut January Mr Hill failed to appoar. I therefore Cynsideied mysJf at liberty to Accompany them without waitnjj longer for Mr Hill, thereby it appeart to me bo deeply injuring Mr Hill's vanity that ho condemned the road at once. I understand he has not even seen it, for I am told li at he lost hit tray at a iwauap, while there itnoiwamp at all on tl>9 So Orangi lu>e. Mr ili'l b^ys he prefert the pretent *• goat traok," as one of your correspondents rightly termt the p-eaeut Irftck, to all othart, that it it the bhortjtt aud bett, &3, &,c. Mr Hill appears not to be aware that it has already been improved to tho boat of the ability of General Camerons engineers, with unlimited labour at their command, iier Majetty'i 70th Regiment w*« for lome time ttationed on thii tide of the Toke Hauhau, and employed in attempting to make the road practicable. If the icttleri in this district are now unanimous in their wiih to have a road made to Waipa, they hare changed since I waa a candidate for a seat in the preient Provincial Council, and Mr Hill did hU bett to iecure " a block vote ' agaiust me. I wai then told " they (the Baglan King) object to you becauio you are always bothering about a road to Waipa, and they do not want a road." How ii it that the bridges on the present goat track ar« being repaired boforo a competent engineer haa reported whether the Ko Orangi track is not preferable ? — I am, &o, J C JoHNSTOJfX.