MAUKU.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6571, 8 December 1882, Page 6

MAUKU.

The quarterly meeting of the Licensing Committee was held on batu.tlay, December 3 Mr. H. Crispe, chairman, ilr. G. U. Wiiteri applied for the transfer ot his license irom the present position to a house to be erected in fatumahoe. Although there had been some talk of a petitiou being got up against the transfer, no action was taken to brin» the matter before the committee ; so takin? that inta consideration, and also that the traffic is leaving the old road from Drury to Waiuku, and coming through the Upper Mauku, they decided to grant the applj. cation, after being assured by Mr. Walters that he intended to erect a good substantial house. I may state that he has bought a site of one acre to build on at a cost of about £40.

There must be some gross mismanagement somewhere in our railway ari'airs. Here is a case in point, and a fact. Mr. K. has a lot cf puriri posts for sale. He receives an or.ier from Waikato to forward at once, about the first week in November, hie applies for trucks, and up to the present time lias only been able to obtain two, quite inadequate lor what he requires, and this entails a loss all round. To the railway authorities, for they might have had the p,iy for the trucks: (2) Mr. K. might have had the price of his posts to invent again in his business ; (3) of the Waikato settler's loss there be no end, for want of fencing to secure his crops. It cannot be that the line is so short of trucks surely, but there is souiethiiu; wrong for the above to happen. I .io not wish to throw blame on the officials at fukekohe, as I have always found them civil aud obliging, and wishful to do their best for tile public." The general cry is for rain. The p:ospect for ail crops is very light, for the weather having set in so dry, they are all coming to maturity too quick. Crass is also shorter than I ever saw it at this time ot the vearbut there is one thing in this district we are blessed with—that is au abuuaaut supply of good water for the use of stock, there being streams of water in all parts of the district, which in a dry season is a great boon. One of our old settlers, Major Lush, has sold his farm, and is about to leave the district, having commenced business in Auckland.—[Own Correspondent.]