CORRESPONDENCE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 3085, 29 March 1892, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE EAST ROAD.

IbtheSdvtor^tUSk^:' Sib,— Mr. Marenant Km done me the honor of writing upon some of ttie mb* jecte mentioned in my letter published on the 19th inst., and says: "Do** Mr. A. A; Partem think the Councfl were going to* be such donkeys as to aarame charge of tt road because tbe Minister did not keep niß appointment?'! I *can aiiare.xoar correspondent I never thought thti muaben of the Oounty Oounofl donMyeVbat on the contrary, painstaking s«ttlen >wha are good enough- to give a portion of their, time in the eenrioe of the county, md>a did not euggMt that tbe council •bonll have taken oharge of theßast BoeoVbot I did express tbe opinion that the~ooQnml should have, moved sooner, tiidrl itiH think the oouncil might by letter ifare* months sooner have brought ''naSSt" th* notice of the Minister the earn* propose! <v wta tubmitted by the depatauooi! «ad if the gentlemen who fmfei om?tlm ooeanon, of Mr. MoKenne^i viajfcjime eortCQt eonsideteAle Bering WwOim been effected. The waiting fcr~ frht Minister is like the opinion Mr. MTTfrmt expressed when % member of tnoittiMp, wished to meet on the msAtee^SfSt oontraete some five or six irajm ago, namely, thai tbe* time jha^pol arrived. Again, the poeitionMrlltilinifait has taken in the recent proeeedtniiini oonneotion with opening immmmijojMbnt between Stratford and A-^iff-ffit^ofr Stratford and Napier do not •bovsoftdh' enthusiasm . on hie PArtmpromo^bidEltf opening up of this country, maldnj^WMn conspicuous by his abunnn finm ■ fmiiili|f' fraught with conseqaenoee (o the^faMS prosperity of this part of taa*eoMt, v gree!fl|j almost tban^anytbing whle^baspsmMem happened; However t ■if Mr. Wdcibkaf has suoh a regard for promoting tt» Baet road a« bis ictUr rmnUee and fau^oM m the past, what itlsi intended ahouWl b* inferred be has done. I can only tsyi^to be hoped he will resume aotfve oberatkoat* The' facts from which I and other bam. drawn the inference whioh I.expiHMlT^ my letter in the words "I am afraid tb* chairman of the county doee.not lore.ihe East road mueV oertainly eeaznto jottify such an .infeienoe; and certainly; Mi. Marehant did not tike oa» to h«w the oapabilitiee of the Em! road route blind before Parliament whin tbe questlon'of the Stratford »nd Central routes We, under oonnderation, neither did I tat poUtioal pefty with which Mr. Marehant w»e tbea_alhftd. With your permierion . I.ptopose to take anot^oppartanidrof| remarkuig übon the first part Of' aDv^ MarcbinPs -letter, material for woJob I have nbf it hand.— Yourt, koi t '■■'■■ - ::- •*;. rl 'Aunr Auenujc PutxiM. , - Stratford^ March 28, 1803.