WHATA WHATA.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 714, 13 January 1877, Page 3

WHATA WHATA.

. January 10.. Oub great consideration should be, which is the best line, and how-cain we get it opened t'> : .t!ie Hamilton railway station.? Whata Whata has the choice of two roids:: one, which we may call the lower, does not leave the Ngaruawahia road for a -mile- below Whata Wh^ta, and -is | expensive, :as well as going m a i_alf circle. If we take a direot line to the statiou there ds, however, a surveyed read to Hamilton, but which, througu having Ino settlers along it, has apparently escaped attention. The line m question leaves the 'centre of the township, and is almost a direct line to Hamilton, and will be only half the distance to the station that any other will be. This road is becoming mora important now that a large portion is likely to be made by the Hamilton Board ; that body intend to open up the road .from Hamilton to the junction with the Whata Whata and Alexandra main line. A weekly mail goes over this track to Ngahinapouri, and as it is found to be -comparatively easy to construct, it will probably be done soor.. When this work is finished, there will be from Hamilton and the station a good flat road to within three miles of Wh-ta Whata, and on which three miles not -a bridge is meded,— only a few cuttings j .we shall then be within 4J -miles of a railway station, instead of having a clay's ride to Hamilt n and back, as at present. It is a fact thnt the road about to be made by the Hamilton Board went ovar some very rouuh country, but- valuable concessions have been made by -gentlemen owning property along the lire, .aud it will now pass over flat laud, besides being' much shorter. It is plain that if we wish to participate m the profit and convenience of hiving a railway, and we may as well, for we shall -certainly do bo m any taxes connected with it, we must get a -.hort and good road to the nearest railway stati >n, which is the Hamilton one. This .3 more important to us than anything else, and it is to be hoped that the settlers m the Waipa will work together •m getting the branch lines epened to the different stations, so that we may feel that we have a railway m other respects than m increased taxes. — Own COJtt.ES"PONDEST.