AN OROPI MATTER
A petition was received at the meeting of the County Council yesterday from Mr U. Thomasscn, Oropi, and thirty-eight other settlers, bringing under the notice of the Council the 'urgent necessity of having the road formed between Oropi and Te Puke, the (.listairje being about nine miles.
Tho Chairman said tic road would give access to many sections at the back of Ohauiti.
Cr Stewart suggested that application bo made to Government foi a grunt for the work. The Council decided, in accordance with the standing orders, that the petition be held over for a month. Mr W. Robinson wrote r<> road to his property at Oropi. He said he had spent £oO on making the road, but tho culverts are now rotten, and new ones are wanted. He also pointed out that a road to Te Puke had been surveyed, and a promise had been made "that if he would give the land the road would be made at once, lie requested that the matter receive attention, as he can block the settlers on his road.—The letter was held over.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLII, Issue 6134, 8 July 1914, Page 5
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