Correspondence.

Waikato Times, Volume XII, Issue 1011, 14 December 1878, Page 2

Correspondence.

THE PUKETE STATION QUESTION, Sib, —As a considerable portion of your space in Tuesday's issue was occupied in ventilating both your own and the views ;of those more directly interested, relative to the above matter, I, as a resident near what you seeni'to condsider the rival site, crave a small, space,, in order to rectify one or two errors, as well as to show that there is necessarily no antagoaistic interest in the matter.

It is not my purpose here to make any adverse criticism on what has been done or written by yoiir informant; buC, lam rather glad to know that you had only Hide little enquiry, otherwise you would have known that there is more than one settler interested in having a station at "Washer's Crossing, .whilst, perhaps, on the other hand, there may be but one really deriving any direct advantage ifrom' the present one", at Piikete. ] Now, Mr Editor, if you had taken much trouble to enquire, you must have known that there is no publio road to Pukete Station, and every person who goes to or comes from it, lias either to commit a breach of the law by walking from Washer's Crossing up that line, or else cross private property to do' so. The one rendering persons so trespassing liable to a penalty ; the other placing them at the mercy or caprice of the private way owner {"and it would cost £2OO to iriake a dray road over the gully, where the road leading to the station at' Pukete is supposed to be, whilst a single horse could take the most part of a ton from any producing farms in the locality, to the proposed site for the new station, at Washer's - Crossing. Now, sir,it is to suppose that we have any desire to make ourselves invidious, by 'taking-any action to get the station removed fi-Qhy Pukete : to this place ; in fact, we are ■ possessed of none of the spirit of the " Dog in the Manger," for we would hot care if there was a station on every tfarm ibetween here and Ohaupo, and we think tliat, as a matter of economy, it would be cheaper to put up new material here, ■ than to shift the shanty from Pukete, which is called a station; but, it is necessary to have some kind ot stopping and landing accommodation here, and 1 have no doubt but we shall get what will satisfy us in the matter,

I may merely add that, the gentleman to whom your article so pointedly alludes, was in communication with the Government, during tho whole Session, and it was only during the last week that matters were brought to a successful issue.—l am, &c, A New Station.