GISBORNE ROADS IMPROVE

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22388, 29 April 1938, Page 11

GISBORNE ROADS IMPROVE

TOWN STILL WITHOUT WATER V !

TELEGRAPH COMMUNICATION UNCERTAIN

QfUJS ASBOCUTXOX TIT.MIAKJ GISBORNE. April 28* • Conditions on the roads throughout the district showed considerable improvement to-day, and with a continuance of good weather, the restoratimx of main overland communications ■will be possible by the end of the week on the East Coast- _ On southern roads, all obstacles are now negotiable as far as Wairoa,with the exception of one creek m each case The difficulty on the inland rout'e 'is a washed-out culvert at Te Reinga, and on the Morere road foe destruction of a bridge near Munwai effectively prevents through traffic. Car services, however, are now operating on both roads, passengers being transferred at the pomfo Communication between Wairpa ana Napier is still closed, and the date of reopening is uncertain. . The road from SVairoa to Wauaremoana is reported to be senously damaged in many places, and tourists are marooned at the Bake House. Gisborne is still without a water supply. Auxiliary supplies so far nave reached only some sechonsoffoe town. The mains are gradually pemg filled, however, and it is eiqjected foat to-night a trickle of water a t will have reached most parts of the reticulated area. . ... Telegraphic -communication witn outside centres is stiU uncertain. It has been found possible to clear ail traffic each night; but foe only landllne available gives trouble during tM day. when foe department is largely dependent upon the emergency radio sets, whose capacity is limited.

FARMS COVERED IN SILT

PROPERTIES MAY BE ABANDONED

i»«m uaocumw irngitiU NAPIER. April 2a. Trains have resumedtheir ordinary time-table on the bridge at Waitangi bemg passed as m for trains at a slow speed- t , All roads north are still blocked, and it is not likely that the Tauporoad wiU be open till the week-end or is expected that the plight of Esk Valley will be far worse was at first thought. Many settlers that they will be compelled to walk off their farms, many of are four or five feet under sflt. It B impossible, even now, to reach Eskdale* half-way up the valley. detour With the exception of one detour of 10 miles, the Mam South road la Open. , --