PLANS TO IMPROVE CHATHAM ISLANDS ROADING.—Officials of the Works Department, preparing for roading construction in the Chatham Islands, visited the islands by the Sunderland flying-boat, Mataatua, this week. They were accompanied by officers of other departments, who were making first visits to the islands. TOP LEFT: Four hours' delay was caused transferring passengers to the Mataatua at the islands when rough weather stopped the outboard motors. In the boat in the foreground are the Commissioner of Police (Mr j. Cummings) and Mr A. G. Harper, Assistant-Under Secretary of Internal Affairs. RIGHT: The waterfront at Waitangi, the port and chief township of the islands, as it looked on Wednesday. A new road will soon be constructed here. The small building in the foreground was inhabited by Maoris till about two years ago. BOTTOM LEFT: “Joggers,” the only transport other than horseback, take the visitors back to the air base in the lagoon across one of the “roads.” RIGHT: This gaol, still used in Waitangi, is the famous prison from which Te Kooti escaped in 1868.

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 25022, 2 November 1946, Page 10

PLANS TO IMPROVE CHATHAM ISLANDS ROADING.—Officials of the Works Department, preparing for roading construction in the Chatham Islands, visited the islands by the Sunderland flying-boat, Mataatua, this week. They were accompanied by officers of other departments, who were making first visits to the islands. TOP LEFT: Four hours' delay was caused transferring passengers to the Mataatua at the islands when rough weather stopped the outboard motors. In the boat in the foreground are the Commissioner of Police ( Mr j. Cummings) and Mr A. G. Harper, Assistant-Under Secretary of Internal Affairs. RIGHT: The waterfront at Waitangi, the port and chief township of the islands, as it looked on Wednesday. A new road will soon be constructed here. The small building in the foreground was inhabited by Maoris till about two years ago. BOTTOM LEFT: “Joggers,” the only transport other than horseback, take the visitors back to the air base in the lagoon across one of the “roads.” RIGHT: This gaol, still used in Waitangi, is the famous prison from which Te Kooti escaped in 1868.