HARAPEPE.

Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1339, 29 January 1881, Page 3

HARAPEPE.

Your remarkn about the Te Rore bridge site, in your issues of the 22nd, are quite correct as there is not any change of the public opinion about the site. The majority of the Bottlers, both here and at Te Rore and Alexandra, are t>till in favour of thu T<a Rore site, and always have been so. To prove that the above are the plain facts of the cate, a memorial is now in the hands of the Government, signed by 70 (and no doubt many more could have been obtained if time and trouble bad been taken) of the piincipal wettlers and business men of this and the adjoining districts, requesting the Government to settle the question at once in favour of Te Rore; in fact, I have it on very good authority that the present delay would not have occurred only through some underhand work that has been going on by certain meddlesome busybodies. The interest takeu in educational matters in this district is not very preat, as on the day fixed for the election of the new committee, the 2-4 th inst., a meeting could not be held, only two people being present. I should not be at all hurprised at the single men not taking much interest in such matters, but those who hare childron attending the school ceitainly should attend to such mattoi s. Haymaking this boason has been carried on under difficulties. Notwithstanding, a great deal of hay has been stacked in good order, although a good deal more time has been spent on it than would have been 4iCne cas.o if the weather had been more — (A Correspondent, Jan. 27.)