THE CAMBRIDGE-ROTORUA ROAD.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2049, 25 August 1885, Page 2

THE CAMBRIDGE-ROTORUA ROAD.

-♦ Xowth.it the fine weather has set in %\o trust the I'ublie Woiks Department will give tilts important highway tins con-udeia-turn to which it is entitled. The repairs which were camud out last summer weie of a limited and tenipoiaiy character, and consequently as soon as the winter het in the load became almost as bad as ever. A gang of men under Air ]). Muiphy, tho Government o\ersecr, have been employed for Home time past in keeping tho road open, and though they have done .some veiy good work, still there h yet a laige amount of work to be done. Tiieie i-> any amount of metal along the ro.ul, and good gravel, whicli could bo utilised at comn.ua tively srrlall cost By spending n few hunched pounds during the coming fine u eathei tho Government could make a pcimancnt job of the road, ami thus save tho necessity of further extemporising when the bad weather seta in again. A couple of linn drcd pounds would go twice nx far in good weather than in bad, especially on road-, like this, but tin-, fact always seems to be lost Might of. TJip toiiust tiafh'c over tins road during th« coming w.non promises to be unusually heavy, mid to make r niching over Kiich a long «tage anything Iilc« bcuable Homothing will ceitmnly ha\e to be done. Agaiii, tho tnnbur tiadic fiom the Waotu mills is very gie.it, and is giadually increasing, and if the road* are no bettei next winter than they have been this they will be closed to heavy traffic altogether. Mr Muiphy is entitled to vei y gieat audit for the excellent woik which he has done on the roft'J, and iwiggoneis and other« nsing the road oxpies-s themselves very much pleased with tho way in which tho repaiis have bucn earned <mt.

MrJ S. Ruckland willsell on the hrm, Auburn, near Alexnndr.i, on Wodnc-d^v, the 2nd September, the wholi' of Mr Thomas J'l-llock's live and dead stock. A full list of the valuable lots will be found in the advertisement.