CORRESPONDENCE.
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THE PARAPARA NECK.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—Now that Captain Harris, of Kenny's Isle, is quite satisfied with the cutting at the Parapara Neck being 10ft. above high water level, I hope that the new track to Kenny's Islo will be brought down to that level. There is talk of the cutting at the neck being discontinued. This, I think, would be a great hardship to all the settlers on the northward of tho neck, and to all those who have subscribed out of their own pockets towards the completion of this work both inside and outside of the neck. It is an enormous short cut for a boat, especially in rough weather, and one advantage of having it above high water mark will be that in no state of the tide will there be any current to prevent a boat going through. I should be much obliged if you would assist us who live outside the Sound by giving publicity to this and in getting this short cut to Manaroa and Havelock. When this neck was 80ft. high and almost perpendicular in places, my men from Titirangi have taken a boat over it once or twice rather than face the sea towards Kenny's Isle.—Yours, etc., F. D. S. Neave.
Government Land Valuation.
