THE RAGLAN-HUNTLY ROAD.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1965, 10 February 1885, Page 3

THE RAGLAN-HUNTLY ROAD.

ro ihk KDiroii. Fiukvi), — Greeting ! Will you kindly insert thi'* letter in your paper, so th.it my I akelu friends may know that the state ment which appeared in tins Weekly News «.f the 24th <>f December last, that I wis •ictiiiL' under Tawhuo's instiuetions when T stopped Mr Hazard in his Mirvey of the Waitetuna-Aote.i roid is not true ; mj only reason foi ibstructing the survey being to gt't the road altered, m> that it would not run through om settlement and cultivation*. Friend Tawhiao h.is no iiiHiii'iici* mcrmy people or my-elf. We hive always been loyal and true to the <^ueen, and have nevei taken hj> amis against her autlionty. We do not object to roidt ; on the contrary, we like them. Mr Whitiker cm tell ymi that »*hcn he \iiited Ratlin in company with the member for Waik.vto, we urged him to endeavour to get a bridge b':ilt o\ei the Waikato river at Hiintly and a load made from there to Raglan. If that load had been made it would hase p.i^ed through our Kind. In stopping the nir^ \eyoi .is I did, I was not aware that I was breaking the law, for I had mitten to the Chief Siuveyiir about the matter, and had received a reply from him to the effect that the road was not to be taken through cultivations m whare-, and as tho place where I slopped Mr Hazard was a cultivation of ouis — we had grown potitoes theie la>-t *»on, and intended planting theio again this seoson, and our whaies were there also —I thought 1 was right in doing what I did. This in all from your friend. Hkimtv Tuum.enuk