NGARUAWAHIA.-PUBLIC MEETING.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 850, 27 November 1877, Page 2

NGARUAWAHIA.-PUBLIC MEETING.

WAIPA . RAGLAN {10ADS, j The meeting held ,pii;S ,itLir(jiy () nigst at tne Delta Hotel was not very well ittended. ; MMjor Wilson -being called to the- chair read the dioticV convening the meeting and remarked that there were two roads to be .considered anii that it ,yiroui4 be ja? well to ,discnss ; uthe. -question of Waipn Road from Ngaruwahia v to Alexan-< i^lra firsL i Mt Byron proposed \he first resoltttioii ' » That a petition be sent to the l govern merit r tb r at once place the sesrvities of some of the Armed Constabulary at? the disposal of the Boards of the several Highway districts through which parses tha road ftom 'Ngaruawahia to Alexandra and; that, the said petition be signed on. Jbehalf of the ratepayers .by the i chairmen of : the Newcastle and Ngaruawahia Boards. 'i Iu . speaking, to the reaolution Mr Byron jioirited j out ' hovv 5 utterly -imiiidssibL 1 it was" for the district Board'^opeu ..up. ■the, road y without goyern^ien help, 'Mr Clarke's Bdrvey : ot the ro«d deviation. ;was the only assi6ii anoe ever given." He did not believe ia asking for too mush for fear of getting nothing, therefore the A.C. labor which impd^eßS no additional' jost on th;n government, -was thf least ;t:hat, smight -be. expected. Mr proposed the n9xt.resolution-'* that the government'. be aisb' requested to render some i pebnniary isaistance i:i erecting the neceßßary ' 'orid^es'and culverts betweed NgaruaWahia .and Whata Wtiata Istima-' ted to cost betW-eWXTOO and £800 Vlr B.trton in seconding said thev had been a long- suffering district, md the amount of government money expended on this road had beea- trifling compared, with othe¥ : parts of Waikato, wherevin m.«.ns 6*se3 government has. formed main roads and erected a bridge :i bef6r f Highway Boards were in existence, Jf the government. took. in hand to "build the 'brid^ea i i) they should siben be only f put*uj)pn;a;fwr footing with", tho/?re3t o^thejdist^ic>^ The chairmm also pointedJoiit !ihat an drain, would übeu be mjide; upou . the* fuiidß "of 'th'e boards for compensation for: land mken, in the : rdaxi < deviation pro. / posed ; and that the last government recoguised the necessity and pro(uiaed to ere'ci 'the bridges on the Waipa road but' had failed to do so. :!,•■,,':•', The Raoi^n Road,; , : - The chuirman re.id a letter froih Mr J. B. Hill of kaglan,' referring to correspondence on the subject from Mr Cox and tne government. (iMlv-Cox had suceeeded in, getting a BtiW of ".£2,500 placed late governmenc upon : the -eatimates-fdr , the making of the Haglari road,' and as the : present ' government has adopted: the estimates it,"would-be-well to press the matter their notice at once »o that the vyosk coald j 'be finished oefore winter set in. Mr Byron then propoied that 'the chair men: of the Newcastle and Ngaruawahia District Boards request Mr Cox to urge upon the government the necessity of putting- on'ithe supjilemeritary estimates a sum sufiioieut to make the road from :Waipa to. Raglan. v The chairman suggested the thieei foregoing -resolutionsshould be teUgrai»l»ed to fciir Oeorge (jrey aud'Mr Cox, cliis beiug" agreed to a vote of than us to the uhairmau closed the meeting. . i ' A te'egrain has y ( Bince been-re-ceived by Mr Edgesumb, froui l Mv Gox at vVellitigton: baying * <'hat uon»*d lai 1 the telegram befof&-ttieij;