The Ohinemuri Gazette AND UPPER THAMES WARDEN. SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1892.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume I, Issue 22, 14 May 1892, Page 7

The Ohinemuri Gazette AND UPPER THAMES WARDEN.

SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1892.

' 'blriiU a.vound' unvarnished tale deliver.!\ I) :;r —Oth£llo, Act l,."Sqene3,

'•The 1-visit .of the .Hon. Mr Cadman to; this 'district is pretty sure to bear good j fruit.* It.will'for one thing bring the ■.proposed.grant.of £250, spoken about ■*by the Hon, Mr MeKenzie, to a head, ■ It may be as, wall to recapitalate this j matter. ..- Mr McKem&ie, on his lafre visit, was. asked by the County people itoir^mit the balance of the advance,of i£looo made by Government to. assist ■ iii paying the Auditof-.d-eneral'saward to "the... Thames; this- balance - amounting to £250 which has to be paid; into a sinking fund account.at a the rate of-£22 per months for tjhe 12 i months ending March 31, 1^92. This, j'Mr McKenzie saidjhe could not do,' but suggested thpt the Council should ask for a grant of £2<)Q for" County works. 3'lt was mentioned ,that these works ' should take the form of an entirely 15 new; operation 'i.e. the road to Waitoa from Paeroa; ' Now, considering that the whole of the County has to-p0: the £250, it is not fair that dMy a portion of the County should receive -it.back again in ;work, as woul'd>be the case if the whole of this money was spent on the road named." Moreover as th^e ; grant is advisedly/for. the relief of the *County, 'and not to make .an entirely ' neto road, which in;tlie:, present state -of County finances could be<well done - -without, a while longer-it was d eemed wise; to ask Mr Gasman to "confer with -Mr With" a view to allowing !the;;money to go in the liquidation;! in ipbrtion, of (1) the cost of the;@i*haroa-; TWaihi deviation^ (2) to cut "down or B improve Turner's' Hill and (6) to spend -about £100 -oii the much-talked-of ';sVaitoa road; This fairly divides the money among the different fiidings - iand: should be a:satisfactory allocation. tlt'is' nofcmuoh to ask Government for, Slbut: the day of great subsidies and : grants is over and done, and-ifreven hhii ] is -obtained it Twill plaoe; the *X)ouiity in the best-financial s position *<it has ever been in since its consti--1 tution. - At the end-of the next financial ;year, with fair care, the Ohinemuri < County will have, paid that iniquitous rand inequitable award of £2000 in i full, it will be free from debt, and will thave made the grade of the roads .throughout the district's extent the ones,, giving a nearly level f grade on the main road from Thames ■to .Tauranga, thus fulfilling the -•prophecy that " every valley shall be • exalted and every hill made low." When this <has been done then will <come the time to tackle the Waikato • road, for such will'be the true name of what :is now termed the Taeroa'When this road is made < Ohinemuri generally, and Paeroa more particularly, will be a centre upon 'which will he focussed the whole of the "traffic of the Thames Valley. It mu&t be so. Already Paer ja is as gooJi a port as the Thames, and the time is ' not far distant when the Totara. ,riding 'of the Thames County, and the Katikati riding of the Tauranga County will be merged in Ohinemuri, which - will then be one of finest and richest ■districts in the North Island. We do not expatiate on the prospects of Waihi, Waitekauri and Karangahake, To " blow" is as bad as, or worse than detract. • But we feel that the district >is a most important one, and desire to vooiat out that a careful and busiaess-

like administration of local affairs by ike body chosen to look after tlie interests of the 'County is no moan factor in its'progress. And -such aj policy we believe ithe^present'County' Council is* 1 intend upon, .notwithstanding the stupid and ignorant reports which are now being'circulated in malice stforethoug-bt.