TUHIKARAMEA.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 661, 15 August 1876, Page 3

TUHIKARAMEA.

■Aueu«t 12. : 7o* trany year*, we in tin's district h»»e i laboured undjr many dioidTan'ngrfc. Our < r<>a« s bate been mgleeted and our mei'-o of rr mnnnnicatio.j with the ou'er world entirely rut < ff. Our nearest Post Office lino bern Aleiandra, distmt 12 miles, and thetcfore no letters or pape-'s have been ebiaicaMe except at a great sac ifice of time. I«m b'ippy to fcsy that tlie c is rowan alteiation in thii dep'orable ■ atr of things. W« ha»e succeeded in peisuarirg the Government fo e»tpb:Vli a Pout Offoe in oar mHst. It has been , ii rr i>gr4lhat a mail shall Ichta every Palurml* *Tarling from Humtlion, conveying oar lettrri »nd paper*. \v'« hop* in a shf rt tune to hiire this inermtrd to a hi-w felly ccinniunicati »n. The b.ancl) is to be r:ill«d the Ngnhinopoun Post Office. We are n't yet a thoroughly *ettl<d dist ict, but th«* quality «»1 the land in such ss to warrant a hrlief that we si a'l er'ntuallr n<* to an importance which w 11 justify farther interference ul th Government in giTin/ us »o«i^ lit 1 prip"rti n of jnstice in tnoso matters wli.rh ai'Tance a district Some tim ago n moTement wan started fldT'>rn'ing tl>e ditison of the Manjapiko and Tuhik-ramta countr *i m Highway 'Mstrcts. 'I he ide» th»«n was to div de %'ien by th* Mnn r ViO >r ks TMs •v«ittUHl fell tine |b. B« n'i»« petition ha>- been gut ii(. io dinu t e di«tnc n ty tbr s'riam kro^nns iJ < a Ii r's Ciet-k. Thisp'tition h»*h. en forw-)ded to thi> propi't {math >r t•< tut th'« r ■ i | ' not yet known. We, out bere, think ti at as oil rates including the GoTernmeiit grant have been exoended on tl<e other Hide of the Mangnpiko xnd nothing fpe t on opo» in»: new roads, wliii'h is rea iy the purpose for which Ihe GoTeri m"r.t grant is madr that we have been *\ ffering a grent wrong, tvd if you see yr.ur «ay to Advocate it you W 1 confer a bencfi upon this hitherto regucted district. We hate only b«en able to re'nrn on sufferance one member to the Mangapiko Board, ann •ii g'e handsd, he could of course ac comp'it nothing. Hnli the nrea of tlie pie mt Mangpiko Highway dis'rctis Within Tahikaramea; and a large omount of the raies is consequently contributed by the r^sidei.t« therein. Fy the way the Hamilton District Highway Board ha? e their bound <ry within a mi'e or of the p>« ent Man^apiko Diatriot. Could they not is case of such a S parntio as succcsted see their way to help us to construe a road r< nnd the western eri^r ot Cox's Swamp, to us to bring us in direc' communication with a crn re of civilisation. There is already a fair traik Idling up M> us in ibftt direction wheh nupht be easily mad« into » P'is*able rond. ]f ibis could be done, it woald b» a great boon to n» up here. I m-iy mention that the new postal service is not yet in wtrking order, but in ttiis csorrt of » ireekor two, I Irupt, all

will be in»np risiht. We expeot »n ».nswprtoour portion annnt tlit pioposed rlivision of districts in ih^ i-oume of « day or two mnd will forwnrJ «ou the rejuli. — FaOM A POBBK^PONDiNT