ISOLATED SETTLERS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23012, 13 April 1938, Page 16

ISOLATED SETTLERS

COROMANDEL COUNTY DEPUTATION TO COUNCIL [BY TELEGBAPH —OWN correspondent] COROMANDEL, Tuesday A large deputation of settlers from the Port Jackson and Port Charles districts waited upon the Coromandel County Council at its meeting yesterday. Speakers stated that their homes were the most isolated in the county, and they were dependent on a bridle track or else the sea, while a Port Charles settler stated that for three weeks past he could not land goods on lis coast owing to easterly winds.

Mr. Balfour Dawson, who lives at the extreme end of the Coromandel Peninsula, referred to the visit of the Minister of Public Works, the Hon. R. Seinple, last January. The Minister had stated that under the five-year plan the extension of the Port Jackson road was scheduled to bo done in the third year. Could not tho council bring forward the work into the second year?

Tbe Port Charles settlers asked that the road at present being completed to Sandy Bay should be continued to Stoney Bay as one job. Settlers had been in that district for nearly 60 years and yet had no access. The deputation asked the council to make a decision at once, and not leave it for the new council. The chairman said thu council generally was in favour of the works being done. Tho Government would also assent to the work if the council made such a decision. The council agreed to recommend to the Public Works Department that the two roads in question be made urgent works for the 1938-39 programme.