OVERLAND TO THE LAKES.—A CORRECTION.

Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1367, 5 April 1881, Page 3

OVERLAND TO THE LAKES.— A CORRECTION.

TO THE EDITOR. Sik, — I have read with much satisfaction tho very interesting papers you have lately been publishing, entitled '•Overland to the Lakes" (by a Tramp). The letterd are certainly graphic, well-written, and true to nature. In the last published, in your i&<mc of Saturday last, and referring particularly to Ohineinutu and its cnvn ons, I find "A Tramp'" is laboring under a very grave misapprehension, and I am sure trom my personal knowledge of the honest straightfonvaid "fiom the .shoulder" manner in which the Bay of Vknty Tones was conducted, while the property of a member of tho Waikato Timus Proprietary, that I have only to draw your notice to the tnihappreheusion I allude to, to cause its correction in justice to Tauranga. " A Tramp " says that ' ' the land " (round Ohineinutu) "is all Maoii property leased to the Government, re-let to settlers; this drawback, and the diMculty of getting i>uppHc& of any hind, nearly everything having to be brought by paclhorses jrom Tauranga, somewhat retard the progress of the town. 1 ' "A Tramp "is out here, the facts being that a coach road, Snvai'iably in excellent order during the summer months, and alvays sufficiciently so, even through the wettest winter, runs right from Tauranga to Ohinemutu, a distance of 42 miles, and that within the last six weeks bi - weekly subsidised coaches have been running between Tauranga and Ohinemutu, and that to t/th day the four-horse waggon of Mr Thomas "VVrigley, of Tduranga, and of Mr Fenton, General Carrier, ply regularly between Tauranga and Ohinemutu. Trusting that I may have the pleasure of perusing many more such readable letters as those by " A Tramp." — I am, &c, Tauranga. Cambridge, April 4, 1881.