WHATA WHATA.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 654, 29 July 1876, Page 2

WHATA WHATA.

July 24. THBofecMon of district tnnteci ii orpr. and we hare two instead of one for VVhatu Woata, so that, we .expect all «orts of good thing* in the shape of improved roads, etc. It it «ati> factory to know that our trustee of laet year, Mr •Dxy, went in a .'am as the head of the poll. As the other irusfee for W,'jata ,Whata has just returned irom foreign parts, and can not be expected to knoir much about the roadi as jet, I may as well draw his atteniijn ta <a< daugerous place on the wain road, about a mile from What* Whata, on tha Alexandra side. A swamp crosses the surveyed road, .an 1 the traffic has to pass orer private property, yet a few pounds spent in a culvert and earth work, would mike a permanent improvement. I understand that the Obite bridge which has b >en iropass ible for so long, is to be immediately repaired, or replaced witli a new one. This work -ins beeti delayed through Government expectations, but <in rain. • However, Oovernment expectations aro not nlwnjs so, for the education rate Gollector, will b« roun 1 in three weoks. It seems hard that bachelors should h«ve to pat this, hut it is so. [Let them get married. If they will enjoy the luxury of single blessedness, they must pay for it.— Ed W. T.]

The wet weather ha* ha! tin effect of making our rovig decidedly bogsv. Settler* are li.ird at work preparing f jrgrw* sowing in the spring, but it is next Hitm-m-r wi'h our new jettlort, that What* What will make * show. I mny.inanlion m an instance of onr preient prugre«, tli»t five b 1 «k cbimn*js are b^in^ erected,, nono of them uurortun*t«'y baloniriog to your* truly. Our new constab'o i» already quite at home, and hi* location hero has the rflfect of keepin ; our nsitiira* oifil *nd quiet. What* Wliita nerer 10->k« so re«p 'otuble as when her defeace forL 1 * U patrollinp; the maiu itreet.— O«Ttf Cottt-