TO THE EDITOR.

Bay of Plenty Times, Issue XX, 22 June 1892, Page 3

TO THE EDITOR.

Sib,— Now that a petition is "being eigued in oar town for the purpose ofc Rowing the Government that the Tauranga people hqve a preference for Thompson's track, o? ' in other words asking Government to -graint & iqdi of money sufficient to complete ttii* track orroadj it. may not be k out;oi place ; to offer a few remarks. I have no objectiQivto this road beirijr completed, but at thY sathe time why thould I sell tny -* birthright for a mew of pottage. ' Was not the Kaimai-Cam-bridge tiack formed by Governmept long Jt>e-: fore Thompson's track was thought of, did not our County Couueil borrow *moucy under then existing laws and spend it in making this road or a portion of ii , and erecting four large, and expensive bridge*. Are we not at the present day paying special rates for the money so spent, and is our County Council bow coolly going to ask us ratepayers to continue payinir these taxes for bridges which.it is their intention to allow fall into decay, thus making; thief Kaimai road a secondary consideration ? What are we to expect from Thompson'sr track when Bobbed f I read with some concern lately v artiole quoted in your patter, I think,. from the Te Aroha Newspaba&bwing forth tfct amount of traffio over the Hills at Katikiti with a view of showing what frafflo we may fzpeot when Thompson's road is finished. Permit me, Sir, to say that not a tingle head of cattle would go via Te Aroha if the Kaimai road was formed, Wher the latter is constructed, Tauranga will become part and parcel of tb.3 Waikato country, having daily intercourse and continual exchange With the other side of the ranges, and tMuredly a freezing hulk in our fine harbour will be the resu& T. Many persons Will sign any petition for which I here is nothing to pay, and many will no doubt sign the one ow before thepublio thinking it costs'fiothng. Oh! fotd vdelu^on ! .Wheii'Mheir signatures aie- ; again -asked to ipetu'o i for a grant to complete tHe ;Kaimai.Road, what will they be worth? They- will be met with the rebuke^-Why, youTanranga^people signed the former petition in i favrfur of Thompson's track, and wheceis your 9ym--pathy with your follow settlers who .willingly taxed themseluee to make the first portion ofthe Kaimai : , Road 4 ?. ' „ How is . it , .tba'l everything undertaken , in Tauranjja . fails h Why bee mse we are continually flittiDg from one thing to another an& nb^hinyi^lake^ up with earnestness and determination. Had this been do c with the— Kaimai road it would have been, finished eta .this. $ and r^w feeling of oonfmubm wduftl BbW&JclsT among 1 our business people.— l aro r etc, , Sbttlee.