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Waikato Times, Volume XI, Issue 887, 28 February 1878, Page 2

Sib, — You have received a good deal of correspondence re the railway terminus at Te Awamutu. lam sorry it should cause so much hard feeling m the di-trict. I do not write this m answer to any of your correspondents, as you know I have had nothing to do with any of them. I only wish to give my reasons for opposing the petition to have the station removed from where it is now laid out into Te Awamutu. I understand that, at the j time the line was being surveyed, Mr Stewart (the Government engineer) was instructed to examine a line into the ' township, which he did, and I was told \ \ by two parties — who had a conversation with Mr Stewart regarding the change — that he said it would make a difference m , distanco of between two and three milee,

and, even then, the station could not be m the township, on account of the deep I hollow at the back of the Public Hall, which would require an embankment of nearly forty feet high. Consequently, if the line was taken through the townsiup the station would have to be nearly a make i little difference to the township wS Slde l \™?* J*- B&J al8 <>- said he was laying oat the trunk linfe through the island, and he could not run it through Wn y . TftP * ear the! inc. I havo aiifoe been told that, some time previous to the survey being made, another engineer (I ft* w^°? *"« name )> on a tour througlh the Waikato, told some parties m Te Awamutu that the Une ought to run through and have the station m the township. As I have no pretension to any engineering ; ability, I have more faith ii Mr Stewart s report than the engineer who examines a line on horseback. No doubt, to have the station on this side £°SV c a benefit to me and all the luhikihi settlers, as the station would be so much nearer to us ; but a new survey means time, and a great deal of extra expense, and, m my opinion, it would end m the station remaining where it is now laid out, with a delay of six or twelve month., These are my reasons for opposing the petition, and I believe two-thirds ol the settlers interested would endorse them.— l am, etc., James Henoebson. Kihikihi, Feb. 22, 1878.