WAIKATO AND RAGLAN ROAD.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 669, 2 September 1876, Page 3

WAIKATO AND RAGLAN ROAD.

A public mooting of tbe stttlera of Riglau uas held on Saturday, Au b uat 26ib, to take into consideration our leprexentative'a evidence, and the report, ■ f the P tit o is Committee on the above road. Mr ueury Duncan occupied tbe ctiair. Toe reiolutioua paused at a meetiuj? of the settlers of Aotea were laid oefore tbe meeting, and, with one exception, were unauimouity adopted, the exception beiug the resolution relative to the boundaries of the proposed Conoty of W»ikatt>. On this, a considerable dia- : cu->sion took placs, many speaker* believ- i nig iq unity as muoh as po-taibie. Ojt late representative's little .nt-reut ■liowd towards Kaglan wu freely alluded 10 Wur treatment of the past, aud many other reasons, eveutualJy earned the n solution w itb one elector, i'htre were present at tbe meeting two gentlemen troia Waipa who took pjrc iv the proceeding*. Tburtd»y's Waikato TiMta hating i'B-n mole pouctual than »i«ua\, nu<l arriving on that day, giving u« a «tat>imont of the action of our new tocmuer tor City West, Mr ToukV conduct) was received with marked app.obatiou, aud it ia unf< rtuuato for v* tbat our member should be amougat those that u«)U »t worn with our Jsupennteadc-nt Hovv-t-ver, we trust that party tquabblea and waBte of time are nearly over, and th t tie Premier will really give fair consideration to Auck'ami, and, in that consideration not forget the couuectiug link between Waiya and Kaplan. » bo W*i t a gentlemen present at thn meeting freely ga\e expresmou to their opinion ua to tbeinisf rable state of our prebeut track. The committee were requested to teud a copy of <hn resolutions to our member, as weli as to our tiuoerintendent. A lbttoi was retd from Captain J. C. Juhuttone, i-tating that Mr Willi -m Turner w*s ready to cut a track lit for a horse to travel, over the Ko-Or.iugi traoli, for the sum of t>velvo puuuds. His offor was acofp el, on tha condition that the s.ud tine Wais to be better than the present one. Onn ef tbe Waipa uttlera heading a list of sub-cripUoos tor dofraymg tho the expeuse, and offering to collect »o additional sum iv tlio Waipa dintnot fur the purpoHe, ii wan also propoted to M?ud Mr Fnssjll, Civil JEnginoer, over the said luit, to ruport on thi faini. A mertiug ; of the cimmittee was subsequently hela. vvhau preparations nere m vie tor giving tffect to the cairying <ut <>f the ulovj roaoiutions. — Fko.4 a Coitßtsp.iNi<Lr. I