A FEW QUESTIONS.
[To the Editor of the Daily Telegraph.] Sir,-—Referring to a letter signed H. J. Williams, that appeal ed in your issue of the 24!h November, I should like, through the medium of your columns to ask that gentleman the following questions:— 1. Is not the Wairoa river in its pre-
sent condition navigable forjnine months, at least, out of each year ? 2. Is not a quantity of wool shipped off the beach (and stores landed) at 2>fubaka, Whakaki, Wh_kamohi, Arapawanui, and a lot of other places, including New Plymouth and Opunake ? 3. Is the present shipping trade of Wairoa sufficient to justify £25,000 being spent on harbor works, which may or may not be successful ? 4. If one hundred farmers wanted to settle in Wairoa county, and occupy say 500 acres of good arable Government land, could they find what they wanted ? 5. Out of the 298,606 acres of Government land said to bo in Wairoa county how much of it is there flat, ploughable and good, how much good pastoral, how much bad, and how much utterly worthless ?
6. Is it not a fact that New Plymouth and Opunake are both flourishing shipping places, and have no river at all ? 7. Is not the Ohiwa river in the Bay of Plenty one of the largest and easiest navigated rivers in the colony, and yet is it not a very backward settlement ?
8. Is not the present agitation m Wairoa attributable to a desire to return to the old habit of living on Government (or borrowed) money ?—I am, &c, Jumbuck.
December 1, 1882
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3558, 4 December 1882, Page 2
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267A FEW QUESTIONS. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3558, 4 December 1882, Page 2
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