PUBLIC MEETING AT WAIHOU.

Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1502, 18 February 1882, Page 2

PUBLIC MEETING AT WAIHOU.

At a public meeting held at the Waihou Hall, on Thursday evening, Mr R. Parr in the chair, resolutions were passed protesting against taxing residents in this district for the proposed route of the Thaines-Rotorua railway on the grounds that if the line is constructed where proposed, its construction will be difficult and expensive and benefit directly only the few, whilst if carried up the centre of the Thames Valley it can be done for nearly 100 miles without the necessity of a bridge embankment, or cutting, at a cost scarcely exceeding the making an" ordinary carriage road, and through a district that will at an early date be thickly populated. It was' also resolved to ask the Government to continue the construction of the Thames- Waikato line at once from Morriusville to the Te Aroha township, and to offer the town pnd suburban sections of land for sale. — The meeting appointed a committee consisting of Messrs Bailey, Parr, Strange, Taylor and Rowe to draw up a memorial, embodying the foregoing resolutions, and to wait upon and present the same to the hon., Jno Hall, and the, member for the district, Mr J. B. Whyte, on their, passing through, on their way to the Waikato. v , ', . ''' ' \

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