THE AUCKLAND-HAMILTON ROAD.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 109, 10 May 1928, Page 6

THE AUCKLAND-HAMILTON ROAD.

For a long time, we understand, the Main Highways Board has been considering the Auckland-Hamilton highway. It is still considering it. It proposes to consider it further for another five years. Meanwhile parts of the highway remain in a shocking and dangerous condition. Motor traffic demands well-made roads, and the great increase recently in this class of traffic makes the present conditions intolerable. As one speaker said at the meeting of the council of the Auckland Automobile Association last night, the temper of Auckland motorists will not survive a five-year project, and Mr. G. Hutchison, the secretary, urged that, irrespective of petrol revenue, the access to Hamilton should be permanently improved within two years. It is intolerable that the main highway connecting two such important centres as Auckland and Hamilton should be in places in a worse state than many country roads in other parts of the North and South Islands. The decision of the Automobile Association to put the case for immediate improvement of this main highway before the Chief Engineer of the Public Works Department is, in our opinion, amply justified, and it is to be hoped that Mr. Furkert will give the deputation a prompt and sympathetic hearing.