and as I know there is no difficulty about that part of the line I thought it best to start the work at once. We shall now be working from both ends towards Niho o te kiore where there is a piece of about five miles where the ownership is disputed by Ngatiraukawa - I believe we shall have them at work at the middle before the ends are finished - Can you not start the Tauranga road. It would be a grand thing to get the line completed through to Tauranga from Taupo - The Poverty Bay roads I shall set going if I go in the Luna on her next trip - it will depend on chances of return I could not go unless I can see my way to getting back. I only propose to employ Bousfield to lay out the Mahia to Murenui road and the Reinga road - for the first I wd. give him abt. £50 for laying out and overlooking and something a little more for the other -For the Ngatiporou roads which you wish taken in hand I must make enquiries and see what wants doing I believe in a back line joining Poverty Bay to Opotiki as very important politically. The Ngatiporou roads wd. of course be only coast lines and the main object wd. be the employment of the people