KIHIKIHI.

Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1760, 16 October 1883, Page 2

KIHIKIHI.

Tun lenidents of this place weio Hiibiected to a great deal of mcom enicnce on .Fnday last, as, owing to the absence of the postmaslei, who had to repair the bioken telegiaph line, thu mail from Auckland was not opened that evening, and no mail was despatched on Satin day morning. It is really too bad that the public should bo made to sunVr fiom tlio gross negligence of the authorities. All tins might easily be avoided by stationing a lineman tit Te Awamutu.' Until about two yeais ago a hnemnn was stationed thcie, but the Government in then wisdom deprived the distncL of his .sen ices, thus mulcting the resident-, liable to siiiious inconvenience, and peihaps loss. The amount of business done m this office is so gie.it that the absence of the postnustei even for a .shoit time is a vei y serious mattei indeed. The const.ibul.il y stationed here aie at woik inipiowng the .stieets, a ■woik which was \ery much lequned, foi dining the winter they weie almost impassable. I see the council passed a resolution at then List meeting, lequesting the chairman to ask the Minister of Public Woiks to giant a .sum of money to lepair the road from Kilnkihi to Oiakau. This is in gently lequhed, as this is, without evception, tlie worst piece of load in the Waikato, I don't think I would be far wrong in saying the province. As it is a (-Joveininent road neither the highway boaid or the council would sp,>nd money on it. consequently the settlers on that road pay then lates for nothing. Let the Government hand it over to the county; the council will then keep it in older. If the council put their tmst in the Minister of Public Woiks they will be doomed to disappointment. Should there be a le-distiibution of portfolios I hope the said Mmistei will be 1 elogated to his propel 1 position in the Hou.se — that of a private member. — (Own Couespondent.)