TE PUHI.

Waipa Post, Volume III, Issue 147, 20 September 1912, Page 3

TE PUHI.

(Own Correspondent.)

From a purely agricultural point of view the northernmost township in the King Country stands well to the fore. Less than five years ago the district was in its native state, and was covered with tea - tree and bracken. First one aiid then another settled on the land, until to-day sees some four thousandor five thousand acres under cultivation and a population of about eighty persons. We can boast of a school with twenty scholars; we also have a post office (called Te Mawhai); the changing of the name is apt to lead to confusion.

* A road from the station to the Kihikihi Road is very badly needed. From the station to the mental hospital the distance is l}/z miles, and half of it is impassable. ft is doubtful if there is a worse bit of road in this island, and although it has been almost impassable for four months the authorities apparently remain totally indifferent to the requirements of the settlers. For months the only means of transit has been through a settler’s fields. Otherwise the work at the hospital would have Happed, as it would have been impossible to get material over the roads. ' Settlers anxiously await the time for the opening up of the long talked-of road to connect Te Puhi with the Puniii Bridge. As things are at present Te Awamutu is seven miles distant instead of three via this much-needed road. The opening of this road would provide the settlers with necessary communication with Te Awamutu. The matter is one of dual interest to both Te Awamutu and Te Puhi, and it is hoped that residents of both districts will combine in the endeavour to urge upon the Government the desirability of open- - ing up this road with as little delay as possible.