Mr Mouat is now engaged carrying on explorations beyond the Lake and towards Ruatahuna, for a distance of 25 miles, and engineering surveys on this road are also in progression. Tho progress of road construction on this line, however, is very slow, and quite justifies the remarks we made nearly two years ago that if the settlers had to wait for the completion of the Waikaremoana road it would bo years before they would get their stock to market. We find from the report that the year's progress consists of 4 miles 66 chains having been widened from Oft to 10ft (this is the Frasertown road and not on the Gisborne- Rotorua line), and 2 miles 33 chains of 6ft bridle track has been constructed round the Lake in the direction of Galatea. The bridle track runs through very hard country, and is expensive to construct. At the same rate of progression a generation or two will have passed away before we have our coach road to Rotorua, and we are firmly convinced that if the Government can burk the agitation for a direct stock track the only stock route they will give us is this Waikare moana road. The prospects of our being able to supply the Auckland markets with our surplus stock are none too rosy unless the settlers bestir themselves, and insist that no further delay take place in the prosecution of a work that ■will be of immense benefit to the district. To the north of us we have an extensive demand for sheep and cattle from the flourishing goldfields district and the large population of Auckland city itself, and the settlers hero are losing all the benefit of the good prices that accompany that demand whilst the Government "take their own time" about starting a stock track. It is time they rose in revolt. We notice in the report that the surveyors are to bo engaged this year on the Tahora No. 2 block of 121,694 acres, which has been awarded to the Crown by the Native Land Court, and as this huge area lies right in the line along which our stock track must be taken, there is here the very strongest argument why tho track should be put in hand without delay. 