HARAPEPE.

Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1598, 30 September 1882, Page 3

HARAPEPE.

A mkkti>'(J of the Pirongia Highway Board was held on Saturday evening, the 23rd. It was a very rough, wild night, and the attendance of the hoard was very small. It was decided that the rate for the present year should he one shilling in the £ as it had been for some years past. Tenders arc to be called for, to collect the rates. The works to be done for the present year were then discussed, and as many' of the roads are in a most disgraceful state from furze, it was resolved that nothing could be done until that question is settled. The two subject 3 are left over until the ne\t meeting, when a full board may be expected to meet, as the rate is to be stiuck. The furze question is a for more serious one than in uiy of our settlers beein to think, and at the present late it is spreading on some of their farms, it io only a question ot time which will be the owner ot the land. There are fainibin this and the Raglan distiict on -which the cost of eradicating the furze would be, at the present rate of wages, more than the land would sell for, and when olcaredthe soil is worthless to grow anything. The ,same thing has happened in Tasmania, and some of the mobt valuable farms in former years, aiu now descited and valuless fioin furze and bria\s. Wu have been getting some very rough weather, gales of wind, with plenty of rain, thunder, and lightning, and feed of every dfbciiption is very backward, indeed, I .should bay, at least six weeks later than last year. Farm woi k is also all behind onUccount of the weather ; but uil (fcperamli'tm is the motto that all New Zealand fanners must stick to, or else cave in. — (Own Correspondent.)