An Epitome of Official Documents Relative to Native Affairs and Land Purchases in the North Island of New Zealand
Tapu on Road
Tapu on Road.
I have been requested by the inhabitants of this district, both Europeans and Natives, to represent to His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor the great inconvenience they experience from the tapu placed on the old road to Waikato, and the threatened shutting-up of the present very important pathway, which has been made by the private enterprise of a few individual Natives who are not disposed to allow it to be made available by the public; and to express their hopes that His Excellency would cause one of the survey lines to be cut, of sufficient width to be made available as a path to the river, as everything of the sort attempted on other except Crown land is subject to be closed in a similar manner at the caprice of the Native owners of the ground.
The eastern boundary line of this block is a shorter cut across the ranges and a more direct route into the interior than any other which I have yet seen.
I have, &c.,
John G. Johnson,
Interpreter.