OHINEMUTU.

Bay of Plenty Times, 8 February 1879, Page 3

OHINEMUTU.

THE CAMBRIDGE AND 0IIINE3I UTO" ROAD. ! • " , February 4. o vr village is beginning to assume quite a ' liyefy appearance, people of all sorts arriving for the races, which promise to be a great success. The R">toi*u> Committee also meet this week, and natives from all parts are assembling- . to', discuss very /Complicated ( questions ,-..._■- ..... „ , ... -•. - - The proposed new line .of. road from "Oliiiiemu-U to Cambridg. is a topic of general inter-eat here, and ii iv.ulcl appear that tha Government is energetically pressing the 'h__tt-_,'"Cap"foih , 'Simpson,. -.Engineer,', having travelled ..through :by/w.ay ,oi Cambridge, selecting ono of the live roads from Waikato to this district. The line approved of by' -dr Simpson is from Cambridge to the open country known' a. Ta Papa, then through the hush, terminating j about two miles from the present Tauranga , Road, and joining it about two miles below | the Settlement- known, as Te Awahou, six '-miles, from. Ohinemutu.- Many of the Maoris consider that tlie terminus of this proposed road shonld- bo' at Waeteti, only lour i miles., from our own settlement. It is I needless now "to comment upon .the immense | advantage of- this important shiirt-dut to our ..land of wilder.. : suffice- it to say that, with the assistance of a' little bit'of railway over a comparatively level run, the distance between here and Auckland will be got over in one dav.