GISBORNE TO AUCKLAND.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 124, 25 May 1920, Page 9

GISBORNE TO AUCKLAND.

THE OVERLAND ROUTE.

The Vigilance Committee of the Gisborne Chamber of Commerce is to submit to the Chamber at its meeting this week a report on the overland route from Gisborne to Auckland, via Opotiki, VVhakatane, and Tauranga. In view of the increasing popularity of this route, tho committee suggests to the Chamber of Commerce of Gisborne that they use effort to make more widely known this outlet from the district. The overland trip to Auckland via the above-named route can be accomplished in 24 hours, and this fact is little known to the general public. A traveller leaving Gisborne by the morning train can connect at Motuhora 'with the through motor car service to Tauranga—a distance of 188 miles—there connecting by boat for Auckland —and arriving at his destination in the time stated. The coet of the trip one way under prevailing conditions is about £4. The committee suggests that, a conference be held to further this very important matter, representative of the East Coast Development League, Day of Plenty Progressive League, Chambers of Commerce —including Auckland—local bodies and members of . Parliament: — representing the districts , concerned.