CAMBRIDGE-TAURANGA ROAD.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1995, 21 April 1885, Page 2

CAMBRIDGE-TAURANGA ROAD.

0 AtlllOll.M not lllllll\ tl.Ut'llcli p.ISS OM'l tho load fiiuii (.'.uiihiidgij to T.mi.inga, en fiom Tauiang.i to ('.uubiidgo, yet si little consideration should he felt, and a little trouble taken t<i facilitate traffic between those* two places. Instead of thin, howevei, no thouglit is given whatever to tiavdleis ;it piesmit. A party of iiiph ait told off to foil trees tec, und, " having no thought for the morrow," the trees Am felled light aciosd the track, and. communication between the two places in totally stopped. I jwwsed over tho tuck the othi-i day; foi fully two mil<w uf tho io,»d, ticca h.ul boen felled indistriu»iii<»t»'ly, and had it not boen for the courtesy and kinducxs of tho men eng.iffcd I would h.uo bern obliged to cwtip out in the bu-.li. I think that befoio work of this kind is undertaken, ft notice hliouM <ippe;u in The Waikato Ti»ne« and T.iui.tn^i Tunes th.it tho load id closed until tho w<>ik i« .iccompli.ihud, otlieiwise travellers are plftced ut tt Muriuiix iiK;ou\ruicnce which might pos.sibly di.iw on tln> " powois that be actiunH foi d.miagos and other troubles which f<»r tin ii own sakes and that of tr.tvellai-i illicit bu easily avoided. I met with every kindnuns and com tesy from the men employed, and in ono instaitcn thuy piloted iii' 1 round a fallen trou which would h.ive t.iken hours to ucconiphsh by thone who weiu un ic(|U.iinted with the track, .1 little fmrthnught would prevent such .in unple.is.iut leiinniscPiicc} of ,i louto tliat is othei wiso .itti.ictive and intt'ivsting to a itr.ui},'er,[with ,its v.uicd pictures of p\or diaiigmg scenery, b.nren fulls, fern find plains, ttiibiilcnt nveis with their d-ingcr-ous closings, then the ciuuitous lise over the dividing lan^'e with iti deuM- bush of \iliitli]<> timliei until tin 1 denrent is mado through imst .md fog into tho Minuei.v plains Tnv\H.in<.