NOTES FROM TAIHAPE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXII, Issue 72, 22 September 1906, Page 5

NOTES FROM TAIHAPE.

mv TrxEGßArn— own coiikesfoni/kst.l TAIHAPE, This Day. In connection with leaking the road from Tekapua. Block to Taihaps, re- j osntly commenced by the contractor, tho ' Government grant of £505 being insufficient; the settlers of Tekapua. at a meeting, decided to give their accrued thirds towards tha work ; the balance to be made- up by a separate rate. The Mataroa. people are forming a road board. It is slated that this is the only way to get value- for the rates they have ■ been paying to the Upper Wangaehu ! Road Board for the last or twelve ' years. It is estimated that about two per cunt, of the rates, is spent in Mataroa, • and 98 about Fordell- The settlers of tho former district h»ve snado several attempts to join the Rangitikei County, but the Upper Wangaehu people -of used to give up such a profitable te.ntorv. One settler says that the settlers are in despair, and have -ehnquished all hopes of ever getting any returii foi tha vast amount of rates they have paid and still I pay, and intend to manage their own affairs lor a while As tho settlors residing at the Mntaroa end of the Mangaono-Mataroa-road have a considerable quan 7 tity of accrued thirds at the r disposal, they are looking forward to their beirg expended in v few miles of metalling this yet. Tho Government, it is suggested, would / probably subsidise the amount, and effect repairs to the boggy places impassable in the winter. The trouble in the past lias bsen that tho settlors aro afraid to metal because the saw millers cut up the road with timber traffic, but the recent test case at the Appeal Court has altered that.