THE MANGAPIKO HIGHWAY DISTANCE.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 671, 30 September 1876, Page 2

THE MANGAPIKO HIGHWAY DISTANCE.

Sir, — With your | emission I shnild liko to buy u f \v noicls in ansAver Io your tone-pomlmt ol thu 9th lost, whoj stylos Ijiinaclf ' Jrutli.' Tin- noa de pUiaic is singularly mil a pi ipoa, us a more nuakmdin,? statement 1 hwo nerer raid. To Iho outti 1c public i muj souud plaualblo enough, our vibli tue imliuted it will not go down. Pausing by his leuiark thut the lurbuleut spirit of Sir George Grey beems to huve descended on the Tuhikarinea settlers, which. I presume is meant to be fuuny, but the point ot wlucb I fail to sco, we come to tho first s'atement to which he takes exception. He says, 'Ie is intimated that all the money is spent about Paleraugi aud Te Awamutu, what an absurd statement, &c. J To this I answer, whit a true statement, the aoads thetnselTes bear witness where the money his been spent. That the amount spent about the aforesaid districts during the past year may hwe been small, in no w»y disproves inj statement. As your correspondent seems well up in the .board s statistics, perhaps be will give us the amounts spent in the above mimed places duiing the last half dozen years. Curiously enough your truthful correspondent gives only the amounts of rates spent in the districts he defends for the list year, while for the Tuhikarmea district tb« whole of the money spent for the last four or five years uro dobited. Truth further gives us statistics legardmg money luid out near Alexandra an I tries to make out it was expended for the sole usj of the Tuhikarmea settlers, Well may I echo his won a ' What an absurd statement !' As well say that the Hamilton roads are made for our benefit, as both may be used by v8 occasionally. With the exceptioa of the two last items he quotes, I deny that they were in any way excluiirely for our benefit. I beg to say in ooncluion that I am very far from intimating that tho pioaent Board will not do us justice. I have every reason to believe that tbey wi 1. 'Ihe remarks I have made have been for the purpose of •hewinghow heretofore this part of the district has been neglected. — I am, &c, Tuuikarjiea. bept. 20th, 1576.