SAFER HIGHWAYS.
t MR, SEMPLE DETERMINED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) * ■ • ; WELLINGTON, Monday. "I am determined to improve the highways of this country and to widen them and cut; out dangerous zig-zagging climbs wherever possible," said the Hon. R. Semple* Minister of. Transport, at the opening of the Paremata bridge. Mr. Semple said the proposed road from Plimmerton to Paekakariki would cost £200,000, and there would be three or four hundred men before many months. •A : few.hours after the opening of the bridge the first smash occurred half a mile away between two motor cars. One of the vehicles was badly damaged, but no one was hurt.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 237, 6 October 1936, Page 18
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