Waerenga-o-kuri Notes.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 538, 29 November 1890, Page 2

Waerenga-o-kuri Notes.

■' L (fbom ocb own cobrbsfondbnt.) Tub all absorbing topic here is how and whore best to spend the money, some £BOO, voted to this district. Word reached here a few days ago that the amount applied for had been granted, and those interested have been allocating it to the various roads, according to the rate the different properties have to contribute to the repayment. It is hoped that the Road Board will accept the wiehes expressed, and so lay it out the money. A deputation waited on the Patutahi Road Board at its last meeting, and laid before ita numbers the pressing wants of the far end of this district, with the gratifying result of having £6O voted to the road used by those settlers who have to be content with sledging wool and goods for the present. Alter a satisfactory docking shearing is now in full swing. The clip is conUdared good, and tfie genial shower's keeping the soil a bit moist, makes the grass very plentiful. The mein toad is in wry good order now, and well it may be, for the maintenance contractor has done a great deal to it, making it fit and safe for very heavy loads to travel along, as many aa seventeen full sized bales of wool being on each waggon. This ie a great contrast with a few mouths ago, when everything bad to be put on pack horses, it being impossible with mud and s’ush for wheels ot any sort to travel on the road. It is to be hoped that the County Council will metal the maiu parts, viz., the flat from Mr Price's gate to the top of cutting and then through the Gorge, before the wet weather sets in. Of course we would like io see the whole length metalled, but it we get this much done this season we will be satisfied. The voting for members for the County Council passed off very quietly. We would certainly have liked to have seen our local man returned, aa then this almost neglected | end ci the county would have had a better i opportunity of having ,itii requirement:; advooaled;