KAIPARA AND WAITEMATA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume III, Issue 684, 23 January 1866, Page 5

KAIPARA AND WAITEMATA.

To the Editor of the Nbw Zealand Hebajvd. Sib,—During tho New-Year holidays I journeyed as far as Helensville on the Kaipara. To my surprise I found that the road, instead of following tho flat, which appears to be nearly a level for the whole distance, from the foot of the Waitakerei ranges along the laud adjacent to the Kumeo, and the upper part of the southern branch of the Kaipara, went up and down ranges of high and in most places barren hills. In explanation of this enigma, I was informed that the flat through which the Kaipara moves for about twenty miles, but which is perhaps only seven miles in a straight line, is in the hands of natives, and so dense a bush there is no road through it. The land is of good quality, and well adapted for farms. Nothing could be clearer to my mind that the only feasiblo plan, if anj', of connecting the Waitemata and Kaipara districts for the prosent would be to make a horso tramway from Kiverhead to Helensville, tlirough the lands bordering on tho Kumeo and Kaipara rivers, on which thero do«B not seem to be a single engineering difficulty for the whole distance. How or why the choicest farming district between Auckland and the Kaipara, and passing through or in the vicinitj of several kauri bushes, Ims been over, looked, I leave others to explain. I :':n ; &c., A. B. Auckland, Jan. 18. To the Editor of the Nkw Zealand Heraid. Sir, —I was very much surprised to see in the New Zealand Herald this morning an article recommending tho removal of the market site, or establishing a market place in another part of the town. True it is that you only suggested the stand you did, as a temporary matter, but it appears so strango to me that I must confess I cannot understand it. It is admitted on every hand that a market place in Auckland is a crying necessity, and it is also well-known that a certain spot in tho centre of the town wa3 selected as the most suitable place, and that the market still is a reservoir for all the the filth and drainage of the surrounding properties, and that something must Jbe done at once, if the plague or disease is to be averted. Why not then spend the money which is voted in draining (and so carrying off all the filth) tho present site, and building a market house in proportion to the money voted, and then no one would complain; but to remove it and lay out a large sum in preparing ' another place, and that only us a temporary place, appears Co me to be altogether unreasonable. If the writer of the article in question will only walk over the market sito, I am quite sure that he will agree with me as to the abominable nuisance now existing, and for which, no doubt, some one is responsible; and why, I ask, cannot the money be spent in draining, levelling, and building a market house suitable to our requirements, and so removo a great nuisance, and supply a great want, namely, a proper market place, and not a livory stables, on which a sum of money would have to be spent which would go a considerable way towards draining and levelling tho proper sito. Hoping you will excuse the liberty I have t ;kon in expressing my views on this important subject, I am, &c., A SuBSCRtBPE. Auckland, January 19, 1866.