TE AWAMUTU.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1874, 10 July 1884, Page 3

TE AWAMUTU.

We ha"c bounced a good deal lieic about big goosebci i les and apples ; we can nKo talk about big canots. Mr Hunter of Ohaupo lias glow n some veiv. Luge ones this year ; they aie ceitainly the finest lot I ha\ c ever seen, many of them •weighing twelve and fomteen pounds, they were laised fiom seed giown by Mill. Roche, and aie the \ariety known as. 11 White Belgians. 1 " The loads in this clisti icfc, with the exception of the Kiliikhi- Te Awamutu mam load, aie better than I ha\e e\cr know them at this season of the year, and u fleet credit on the management of the highway boaul. That hitlieito very bad spot, known as the "Aog biidge " on the Te Kahu road, will soon be as pood as any piece of load in the countiy. It passes through \a very nasty piece of swamp, that dining web weather overflowed and made the place positively daiigeious. A chain nine feet wide and two feet deep is being cut fiom the log budge to the Manga piko cieek ; it runs between the jnopeities of Messis Bond and Buike, and will diam the whole of the sw.iinp. The board have granted a .sum or l'2o as a subsidy towards tin* woik ; it is money well spent, for the spot was a continual souice of expense to the boaul. Ihe ti.iiho in tins place has, since the constiuction of the the l.ulw.iy, been consi Ictable, foi it is on the load to Ngaioto station, but when the dram is finished it will be good for all time. I saw the diain, and fiom smface to botton tlieie was a mass of loots and stumps that must ha\ c been difhcult to remove. Theie is a good fall to the creek, so that theic us no feai of the load ever being undei watei again. Sir Geoige Giey and the Piemier in their speeches dwelt a good dual on fosteiira loeil lndiistiies ; if tlien senti ments in this dnection took a piactical turn and 1 educed the fieight on cheese, those inteiested in the vanous cheese faetoiies would be giateful to them. If a conference of d( legates fiom the factoiies in "Waikato weie held for the purpose of urging on the (Joveinment the desirableness of leducing the fieight, it might have the desned effect. TJie saving of 3 ls a ton in this respect would make a gieat dilleience in the balance sheet. Cheese is as much a faun pioduct as potatoes and w heat, and suiely theie is no reason why it should not be cm led at the same rate. I hope the diiectois of the factoiies w ill take the mattei into consideration, and see what can be done before next season. I see Mr Sydney Taiwlianga has been nominated for the three eleetoial distiicts in the North Island. He evidently means to have M.H.1l tacked on to his name. Of the eight candidates nominated here last Monday I fancy Weteie te Rerenga, Henaie Kaihon, and Miugakahia will head the list, but it is a subject in which we paKehas take very little inteiest —(Own Lonespondent).