WHATAWHATA.

Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1111, 7 August 1879, Page 2

WHATAWHATA.

A meeting of the Whatwhata settlers was held, as advertissd, on Friday evening last, in the Schoolroom; nearly every •ratepayer was present. Mr Braithwaite occupied the chair. After the usual preliminaries, Mr Corboy made an explanation in reference to the action taken by Mr Hay and himself at the late Te Kowhai meeting. They both considered that the district had been most unfairly treated in the election business, and they were determined not to take seats upon the .Newcastle Highway Board until they kucw the minds of the "Whatawhata ratepayers on the question, and it was with this object that the meeting had been called. The following resolutions wero then put to the meeting, and carried unanimously: — 1. "That this meeting resolves, that in consequence of the peculiar configuration of the Newcastle Highway district, which, apart from other reasons, renders it most unworkable and inconvenient for the whole of the ratepayers, that a division of the Newcastle District into two separate Highway Districts, named Newcastle and Whatawhata respectively, take place." • 2. " That a committee, consisting of the following settlors: Messrs Corboy, Day, Dawson, Eothwell, Crawford and Shepherd, be appointed to carry out the wishes of the settlers, as embodied in the first resolution.'' 3. " That the two Members representing this portion of Newcastle District, do not resign their office as Trustees." 3. " That the committee take advice, as to tho legality of the proxies which Avero declined at the Te Kowhai meeting." The resolution, business being finished,

Mr 'JL\ V. Fitzpatrick, the only ratepayer present from the Newcastle end of the district, thou suggested that an application bo made to the Newcastle Board, for statistics showing the amount of rates collected, and moucy spent in thcWhatawhata district, during the past four years. This, however, the meeting considered as quito unnecessary, every man in Whatawhata knowing how far the good roads have ever come, viz., to Boinfrey's Hill, and no further. Whatawhata was not always dependent upen the Newcastle District, and the old boundary line, which leaves the Waipa at Karakariki, passes the Roto Karori Lake, and then to the railway, would again bo a suitable one. At the conclusion of the meeting, the question of who are we to have, as M. U .R., was discussed, and it was decided to send a requisition to Sir George Grey, asking him to stand for Waipa. Allusions were made to our lato Member, Mr McMinn, and judging from the expressions used, the explanations which are promised in his recent telegram, will have to be veiy satisfactory indeed, to reinstate him in the confidence of the Whatawhata electors.— Cobbespondent.