The Hatuma Settlement.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXIII, Issue 4233, 27 July 1901, Page 4

The Hatuma Settlement.

The following correspondence which has been placed at our disposal, should prove of interest. In reply to a letter from the Hatuma settlers Mr C. Hall, M.H.R., writes : Will you kindly inform the settlers that 1 have approached the Department of Railways in regard to the trains stopping at Hatuma and have got the promise that the trains shall stop, and that provision will be made for a proper flag station and sidings, but the site for the sidings and station will be about 15 chains further south, as the present woolshed siding is not suitable. You may depend that I will not allow the matter to rest until you have got proper accommodation.—l am, etc., . Chas. Hall. Wellington, 23rd July, 1901. Dear Sir, —In further reply to your letter of the 20th inst., with reference to the stopping of trains at Hatuma, and also the erection of stock yards there, I have to say that I duly brought this matter before Mr Ronayne, General Manager of Railways, for his favourable consideration, and he now informs me that he has arranged to stop the train as required. He also informs me that the present site is unsuitable for a permanent station,’ and it is intended to shift the station about 30 chains, and until that is done, the question of stock yards must remain in abeyance. Hoping this will prove satisfactory.—l remain, Yours Truly, T. Y. Duncan. C. Hall, Esq., M.H.R., Parliament Buildings.