The Waikato Times. SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1878.

Waikato Times, Volume XII, Issue 951, 27 July 1878, Page 2

The Waikato Times.

SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1878.

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Some litte disatisfaction appear to have been feljt; by t some of ,the local Boards in' the County of Waipa at the sum oi £6BO being deducted for the Waipa road from the £2,222 before &; division was made. The work, however, \is one of such pressing . necessity, comes bo thoroughly up to the.spirit of the purpose for which the grant of £40,000 was really made by the arid covers au expenditure which was so much beyond the means of the districts immediately benefitted to incur, that the rest of the county, we think, may generously forbear to grudge so niuch needed an assistance to a part of the delta which ha-j profited to little by Public Works expeadisure. We were, therefore not surprised to tiud that at the last meetin<*bf. th'e Hamilton Borough Council although the question of protesting against the appropriation was raised,

it met with littb support, an 1 droppid. <A ncl alluding to u.»«j negUcted portion ,of the Waipa County, naturally leads us toanotfier, the state in which the Wh itawhata gEitstrict hss been left, cut off almost "entirely from communication villi a , %n travel direct, from Whatawhataf toj|£an)ii f on but now that a p<>itft|iis ojlptthe. track, used across private liberty, to avoid the Government; sliiie of road which w. s iiri'-i has been fence I off by the owner, dray traffic into Harni',to^Js. v c,ut...off.a^ is a in itter which we would recommend to the attention of the Borough Coimeil Board. Here is.a considerable aid' thriving country population anxious to Jiave access ;tb the town, to bring there their farm and dairy produce,, aud take in return the, shopkeepers' goods,, -..but. literally they cannot travel" the' 'fe'w rni'es of distance, k even in summer, for want of a practicable) .rojtul'/ , r stis JBoVougU -would) benefit largely, and the Hamilton Highway' Dist.ric't-^-if f it did. not iUrectly profit as tlie Borough would —woiilrt gwiu -by -what 1 benefits the latter. To; it seems "a <tnost shortsighted policy that' botb; local bodit s do hotf borne Tbnvj-Vrl' and ; as.-ist ! Whotawhati \ ] ih "opening this road unable to perform the three:together, could acco ipli.h- to. the benefit more'-or le>s ; of' all. ' Cambridge, whose people are, perhaps, as well able to sie their own .interests and conserve

them? as any in the district, have acted "very difTe eutly in the case ot a new settlement of a dozen or more faniiliis, which have taken roo k . oh Mr : Wkyte's laud at Piako. Tin work of the Canibrjdge-Piiko road has been ,warmly taken up by the Cambridge people, aud they will thusopenup what willbeacontinually increasing country trade for their: township. Hamilton might with benefit take a leaf from the Cambridge book in this matter, and foster east and west, by road and tramway, facilities for communication with her as a centre. Tu no other way could she so quickly aud permanently add to her prosperifcy and solid advancement.