MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS AT PATKA. [from our own correspondent.] Carlylb, April B.— The Hon. Mr. Mac andrew arrived hero this morning. Tho Hon. Mr. Ballance, having been re-called to Wellington on urgent busi ness, did not come. Tho Chairman of the County Council is here to see him. A start will be made for Hawera this afternoon. A deputation of County Councillors waited on the Hon. Mr. Macandrew, who empowered the Chairman to enter into contracts to the amount of £1,500, being hal \ the amount of the Waitotara- Stony River contract, for roads ; he also promised that the railways to Waitotara and from Now Plymouth should be pushed on. He expressed himself thoroughly in favour of military settlers being located on fifty acre sec tions on the Waimate Plains as the quickest and most feasible way of settling the diffiaultv. He has promised to g<st Mr Sheehan to expend all the available money that is left out of the native vote on tho Mountain Road. He left for Hawera at 3 p.m.
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