WHATAWHATA.

Waikato Times, Volume XIV, Issue 1192, 17 February 1880, Page 2

WHATAWHATA.

Some time since, I mentioned tbat all the road works were being proceeded with, I should have omitted one, this contract will finish Clarkes deviation, which for a considerable time past, has been completed throughout the Tuhikaramea district, and up to our boundary. The cause of the delay, is, that alterations involving a larger outlay than £5 will be required, and the two trustees Messsrs Day and Gorboy, did not care to take the responsibility of authorizing it. The matter, therefore, will have to come before a full meeting of the Board, the question is, when will there be a full meeting of Newcastle Trustees ? For several meetings past only three members have attended : the Chairman, < . B. Harris, and Mr Morris are too busy attending to their own affairs, or have forgotten the existence of the Board, the whole thing sterns to be a farce, here we have fine weather, a conaidarable sum of money over £IzOO to work upon, yet the Newcatle Board cannot find time to attend to its duties, surely it is no*, too much to ask that if public men, will not do their work, then they should make way for those that will, and I might remind those electors living upon the Hamilton Road, that they might have had the new bridges which are so urgently ne ded upon that road erected last year, had their local representatives been attending to their interests, instead of so warmly supporting the Chairman in making bye-roads, partly through his own property ajnd elsewhere. Unless the Newcastle Board do something, and that soon, the money which our M.H.E has obtained for us, will if kept, to be spent in the winter, be like a great deal of the last grant, of little or no use to us whatever. The annual quarterly cattle sale, bakes place next "Wednesday, no doubt there will be a p;ood number of stock ; so far the prices realised at our sales, have been quite as high as at Ohaupo, and the advantage is felt by everyone living in the Waipa, of not being almost obliged to sell their stock as they are when taken such a distance. At Whatawhata, if the /-took do not bring the reserve, it is a simple matter to drive them home, or if the vendors wish it, the stock can be sent on to more central markets, at a very trifling additional expence. It is clearly to the interest of Waipa settlers to support the local sales. — [Correspondent.]