OHAKUNE REQUIREMENTS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7356, 7 February 1911, Page 6

OHAKUNE REQUIREMENTS

DEPUTATIONS TO THE PRIAIE MINISTER. FBOU oun SPECIAL EBPOBTEB. OHAKUNE, February 6. Just before his address here to-night a number of local deputations were introduced to the Prime Minister by W. T. Jennings, the member tea - the district. , . ~ Tho first was with reference to the Advances to Settlers Department. Mr Jennings handing in a petition signed by some thirty-nine settlers ol the Olnakuno Village Settlement, requesting that their applications for loans, winch hud previously in every instance been refused by tho department, should be given effect to. It was stated that although they were originally led to believe some help would be given them, for a cause unknown to the settlors advances had been refused time after time. Explanation had been asked for, but none was given and many of tho settlea-s were in sore straits for want of funds. ~ , Sir Joseph Ward said that provided the security were good enough and that permanency was assured he knew of no reason why the' Advances Board should withhold from settlers the means of providing themselves with homes. Upon liis return to Wellington he would be glad to look into the whole matter. The other matters brought forward were principally with reference to road formation in the township, complaint being mad© that although it was now two years since holders took up their sections they had not yet been given road access, the trees still standing in the place where the roads ought to be. A request -was also made that as the holdersof sections fronting on Uranga street had purchased their sections on the tin-, derstanding that they would be facing the Ohakune railway station the- road at present in use through the railway reserve should be closed down and the i diverted along the main street. The Prime Minister promised to have all the matters that had been brought under his notice looked into, and to have the replies forwarded to the member for the district.