South Africa’s roads were well explored by Major J. R. Kirk, Lower Hutt, on a tour from which he returned recently by the Awatea. A seven weeks’ tour of the Union, with a car and coloured “boy,” reminded him forcibly of New Zealand roads before Mr Coates - took them in hand. However, South Africa was so vast, and the white population so small - , that one had to be thankful that they were as good as he found them and remember that national roads were to be completed within the next six years at an expenditure of £18,000,000. “Better a live ass than a dead lion,” was one of the warnings to speed merchants along the highway.
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22271, 9 December 1937, Page 10
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