PAPAKURA VALLEY.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XX, Issue 2139, 28 May 1864, Page 6

PAPA K U R A VA LLEY.

To the Ji'tluor of the Daily Southern Cross. Sri!, — Will jou be so good ad to fivourino with the inbeition of the following cunmunication, on a nuittoi of some nnpoi tanco to this di^li ici. 'J'hc object is to obtain thiough the mediiiin of your columns, some infoimation us to the best mode of dealing with the question. Some eight 01 ten ycais ago a line of load, ili-vetu'ing fiom the Govcinment lino, as being infinitely butter, was nude thiough piivato piopeity, without the wise jnecauUon of secuiipg it for the public. Recently this piopcity has been sold, and tho purchaser has givon notice that the public will be excluded fiom the use of it on the 30th of June next. This toad, in the view of otheis, enhances the \alue of the estate in question The appropriation of it as piivate piopcifcy, and for puvato use, will inflict on a whole neighbourhood a guevous inconvenience. Theiehas been a heavy outlay on its onginal conslniction and lepaiis. Tho formation of a road on the Government line would be attended with comparatively an enormous outl.iy ; and would ever be a bad one. The questions 1 beg to ask, arc : Has the individual above tho light to diveit, under the ciicumstnncos, the Baid load from public use ? Would the Goveinmcnt interpose, by passing an act to legalise tho piesent line of load ns public piopeity ? Failing this, would tho load woiks, as badges, itc, belong to the e&tato through which it passes ? 1 am, &o ,