NATIONAL HIGHWAY.
FROM AUCKLAND TO BLUFF. PROPOSED WAR MEMORIAL. A proposal that a national high-way should be constructed from Auckland to the Bluff as a wax memorial was supported in papers read before the Town Planning Conference by Messrs. "5. A. R. Mair and X. Crofton Stavely, civil engineers. They estimated the total distance at approximately 1,200 miles, and the cost at about £6,000,000, of which it was suggested £1,000,000 per annum could be appropriated. Admittedly, such a. highway wag a bold and costly scheme, but it was not extravagant, and would handsomely repay such development from an economic standpoint. So much had been spent on the war, they eaid, that the Dominion could ill afford to expend ita resources upon anything in the way of au unproductive memorial to soldiers.
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Auckland Star, Issue 123, 24 May 1919, Page 7
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131NATIONAL HIGHWAY. Auckland Star, Issue 123, 24 May 1919, Page 7
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